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ArticleScientific reports2016

Depolarizing GABA/glycine synaptic events switch from excitation to inhibition during frequency increases.

Pascal Branchereau, Daniel Cattaert, Alain Delpy, Anne-Emilie Allain, Elodie Martin, Pierre Meyrand

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. When Are Depolarizing GABAergic Responses Excitatory?Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Pascal BranchereauUniv. Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, F-33615 Pessac, France.
Daniel CattaertUniv. Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, F-33615 Pessac, France.
Alain DelpyUniv. Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, F-33615 Pessac, France.
Anne-Emilie AllainUniv. Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, F-33615 Pessac, France.
Elodie MartinUniv. Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, F-33615 Pessac, France.
Pierre MeyrandUniv. Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, F-33615 Pessac, France.
Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d’Aquitaine · FRUniversité de Bordeaux · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By acting on their ionotropic chloride channel receptors, GABA and glycine represent the major inhibitory transmitters of the central nervous system. Nevertheless, in various brain structures, depolarizing GABAergic/glycinergic postsynaptic potentials (dGPSPs) lead to dual inhibitory (shunting) and excitatory components, the functional consequences of which remain poorly acknowledged. Indeed, the extent to which each component prevails during dGPSP is unclear. Understanding the mechanisms predicting the dGPSP outcome on neural network activity is therefore a major issue in neurobiology. By combining electrophysiological recordings of spinal embryonic mouse motoneurons and modelling study, we demonstrate that increasing the chloride conductance (g(Cl)) favors inhibition either during a single dGPSP or during trains in which g(Cl) summates. Finally, based on this summation mechanism, the excitatory effect of EPSPs is overcome by dGPSPs in a frequency-dependent manner. These results reveal an important mechanism by which dGPSPs protect against the overexcitation of neural excitatory circuits.

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AnimalsChloridesEmbryo, MammalianExcitatory Postsynaptic Potentialsgamma-Aminobutyric AcidGlycineIsonicotinic AcidsMiceMicroscopy, FluorescenceMotor NeuronsPatch-Clamp TechniquesSpinal CordChloridesgamma-Aminobutyric AcidGlycineisoguvacineIsonicotinic Acids

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PMID26912194
PMCPMC4766471
OpenAlexW2278934127

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