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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2002

Potassium currents during the action potential of hippocampal CA3 neurons.

Jörg Mitterdorfer, Bruce P Bean

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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70 citing papers in PubMed, 152 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jörg MitterdorferDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Bruce P Bean
Harvard University · US

Funding

VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ION CHANNELS IN PURKINJE NEURONSR01NS036855 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI BEAN, BRUCE P · 1997 to 2022
$7.7M
MUSCARINIC MODULATION OF GIRK CHANNELS IN THE CNSP01NS038312 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI BEAN, BRUCE P · 1999 to 2003
$3.9M
Voltage-dependent ion channels in Purkinje neuronsR37NS036855 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI BEAN, BRUCE P · 2002 to 2008
$2.8M
NEUROTRANSMITTER CONTROL OF IONIC CHANNELSR01HL035034 · NHLBI · OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI BEAN, BRUCE P · 1985 to 2001
$705k
NHLBI NIH HHS HL35034NINDS NIH HHS NS36855NINDS NIH HHS NS38312NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS036855NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS036855
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Central neurons have multiple types of voltage-dependent potassium channels, whose activation during action potentials shapes spike width and whose activation and inactivation at subthreshold voltages modulate firing frequency. We characterized the voltage-dependent potassium currents flowing during the action potentials of hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons and examined the susceptibility of the underlying channel types to inactivation at subthreshold voltages. Using acutely dissociated neurons that permitted rapid voltage clamp, action potentials recorded previously were used as the command voltage waveform, and individual components of potassium current were identified by pharmacological sensitivity. The overall voltage-dependent potassium current in the neurons could be split into three major components based on pharmacology and kinetics during step voltage pulses: I(D) (fast activating, slowly inactivating, and sensitive to 4-aminopyridine at 30 microm), I(A) (fast activating, fast inactivating, and sensitive to 4-aminopyridine at 3 mm), and I(K) (slowly activating, noninactivating, and sensitive to external TEA at 3-25 mm). The potassium current during the action potential was composed of approximately equal contributions of I(D) and I(A), with a negligible contribution of I(K). I(D) and I(A) had nearly identical trajectories of activation and deactivation during the action potential. Both I(A) and I(D) showed steady-state inactivation at subthreshold voltages, but maximal inactivation at such voltages was incomplete for both currents. Because of the major contribution of both I(D) and I(A) to spike repolarization, it is likely that modulation or partial inactivation at subthreshold voltages of either current can influence spike timing with minimal effect on spike width.

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4-AminopyridineAction PotentialsAnimalsCell SeparationElectric StimulationHippocampusIn Vitro TechniquesNeuronsPatch-Clamp TechniquesPotassiumPotassium Channel BlockersPotassium ChannelsPyramidal CellsRatsRats, Long-EvansTetraethylammonium4-AminopyridinePotassiumPotassium Channel BlockersPotassium ChannelsTetraethylammonium

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PMID12451111
PMCPMC6758734
OpenAlexW2120652370

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