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Brain Research

Volume 98, Issue 3, 21 November 1975, Pages 574-581
Brain Research

Climbing fiber deafferentation: Its action on Purkinje cell dendritic spines*

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    In agreement with our findings, this could induce an initial activity-dependent decrease of spines24 that, with a putative disruption of intracellular signals in the parallel fiber-dendritic spine synapses due to the lack of endoplasmic reticulum in the spines,25 would impair the organization of motor actions and lead to ataxia. Furthermore, the evidence available and our findings agree with reports showing that tetrodotoxin treatment did not affect spine density at day 7 post-treatment26 but increased it from day 7 to 3 months after 3-AP administration.15 This could occur while parallel fibers are gradually innervating some of the remaining proximal spines, inducing a later increase in their density and competing with climbing fiber sprouting until the atypical parallel fibers decrease, disappear, or come to coexist.27

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    Nevertheless, these fibers have a more important role, since they are involved in the regulation of the spinogenesis in the proximal dendritic compartment (Sotelo et al., 1975). Experiments performed many years ago allowed us to assume that climbing fibers are essential for this compartmentalization of PC dendrites, since if climbing fibers are removed either during development (Sotelo and Arsenio-Nunes, 1976) or in adult animals (Sotelo et al., 1975), the thorns, stubby spines, disappear, and numerous new long-necked spines, similar to those present in the distal compartment, emerge all along the proximal branches. In the same fashion, in organotypic culture, a system devoid of climbing fibers, PCs bear numerous spines throughout their dendritic tree (Seil et al., 1980; Dusart et al., 1997).

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This research was partially supported by the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (A.T.P. 6-74-27 No. 20) and by USPHS Research Grant NS-09916 from NINDS.

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