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Title: Adaptation in the visual cortex: influence of membrane trajectory and neuronal firing pattern on slow afterpotentials
Author: Descalzo, Vanessa
Gallego, Roberto
Sánchez-Vives, María Victoria
Keywords: Neurones
Canals de calci
Còrtex visual
Visió
Neurons
Calcium channels
Visual cortex
Visión
Issue Date: 7-Nov-2014
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Abstract: The input/output relationship in primary visual cortex neurons is influenced by the history of the preceding activity. To understand the impact that membrane potential trajectory and firing pattern has on the activation of slow conductances in cortical neurons we compared the afterpotentials that followed responses to different stimuli evoking similar numbers of action potentials. In particular, we compared afterpotentials following the intracellular injection of either square or sinusoidal currents lasting 20 seconds. Both stimuli were intracellular surrogates of different neuronal responses to prolonged visual stimulation. Recordings from 99 neurons in slices of visual cortex revealed that for stimuli evoking an equivalent number of spikes, sinusoidal current injection activated a slow afterhyperpolarization of significantly larger amplitude (8.5±3.3 mV) and duration (33±17 s) than that evoked by a square pulse (6.4±3.7 mV, 28±17 s; p<0.05). Spike frequency adaptation had a faster time course and was larger during plateau (square pulse) than during intermittent (sinusoidal) depolarizations. Similar results were obtained in 17 neurons intracellularly recorded from the visual cortex in vivo. The differences in the afterpotentials evoked with both protocols were abolished by removing calcium from the extracellular medium or by application of the L-type calcium channel blocker nifedipine, suggesting that the activation of a calcium-dependent current is at the base of this afterpotential difference. These findings suggest that not only the spikes, but the membrane potential values and firing patterns evoked by a particular stimulation protocol determine the responses to any subsequent incoming input in a time window that spans for tens of seconds to even minutes.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111578
It is part of: PLoS One, 2014, vol. 9, num. 11, p. e111578
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/105715
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111578
ISSN: 1932-6203
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació)

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