The Subprimary Range of Firing Is Present in Both Cat and Mouse Spinal Motoneurons and Its Relationship to Force Development Is Similar for the Two Species
| Autor: | Dennis Bo Jensen, Natalya Sukiasyan, Anne Hedegaard, Hans Hultborn, C. F. Meehan, Katinka Stecina, Jacob Wienecke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine medicine.drug_class Rate modulation Mice 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Species Specificity Motor system medicine Animals Muscle Skeletal Research Articles Motor Neurons Membrane potential CATS Chemistry General Neuroscience Motor control Mixed mode Electric Stimulation Mice Inbred C57BL 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Spinal Cord nervous system Barbiturate Cats Biophysics Female Soma 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Muscle Contraction |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Neuroscience. 38:9741-9753 |
| ISSN: | 1529-2401 0270-6474 |
| DOI: | 10.1523/jneurosci.2898-17.2018 |
| Popis: | In the motor system, force gradation is achieved by recruitment of motoneurons and rate modulation of their firing frequency. Classical experiments investigating the relationship between injected current to the soma during intracellular recording and the firing frequency (theI–frelation) in cat spinal motoneurons identified two clear ranges: a primary range and a secondary range. Recent work in mice, however, has identified an additional range proposed to be exclusive to rodents, the subprimary range (SPR), due to the presence of mixed mode oscillations of the membrane potential. Surprisingly, fully summated tetanic contractions occurred in mice during SPR frequencies. With the mouse now one of the most popular models to investigate motor control, it is crucial that such discrepancies between observations in mice and basic principles that have been widely accepted in larger animals are resolved. To do this, we have reinvestigated theI–frelation using ramp current injections in spinal motoneurons in both barbiturate-anesthetized and decerebrate (nonanesthetized) cats and mice. We demonstrate the presence of the SPR and mixed mode oscillations in both species and show that the SPR is enhanced by barbiturate anesthetics. Our measurements of theI–frelation in both cats and mice support the classical opinion that firing frequencies in the higher end of the primary range are necessary to obtain a full summation. By systematically varying the leg oil pool temperature (from 37°C to room temperature), we found that only at lower temperatures can maximal summation occur at SPR frequencies due to prolongation of individual muscle twitches.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTThis work investigates recent revelations that mouse motoneurons behave in a fundamentally different way from motoneurons of larger animals with respect to the importance of rate modulation of motoneuron firing for force gradation. The current study systematically addresses the proposed discrepancies between mice and larger species (cats) and demonstrates that mouse motoneurons, in fact, use rate modulation as a mechanism of force modulation in a similar manner to the classical descriptions in larger animals. |
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