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ArticleNeuron2016

Conditional Spike Transmission Mediated by Electrical Coupling Ensures Millisecond Precision-Correlated Activity among Interneurons In Vivo.

Ingrid van Welie, Arnd Roth, Sara S N Ho, Shoji Komai, Michael Häusser

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Article in Neuron, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. On the Diverse Functions of Electrical Synapses.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ingrid van WelieWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Arnd RothWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Sara S N HoWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Shoji KomaiNara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
Michael HäusserWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Electronic address: m.hausser@ucl.ac.uk.
University College London · GBNara Institute of Science and Technology · JP

Funding

Wellcome Trust 201225/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many GABAergic interneurons are electrically coupled and in vitro can display correlated activity with millisecond precision. However, the mechanisms underlying correlated activity between interneurons in vivo are unknown. Using dual patch-clamp recordings in vivo, we reveal that in the presence of spontaneous background synaptic activity, electrically coupled cerebellar Golgi cells exhibit robust millisecond precision-correlated activity which is enhanced by sensory stimulation. This precisely correlated activity results from the cooperative action of two mechanisms. First, electrical coupling ensures slow subthreshold membrane potential correlations by equalizing membrane potential fluctuations, such that coupled neurons tend to approach action potential threshold together. Second, fast spike-triggered spikelets transmitted through gap junctions conditionally trigger postjunctional spikes, depending on both neurons being close to threshold. Electrical coupling therefore controls the temporal precision and degree of both spontaneous and sensory-evoked correlated activity between interneurons, by the cooperative effects of shared synaptic depolarization and spikelet transmission.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAnimalsElectric StimulationGap JunctionsInterneuronsMembrane PotentialsMiceNeural InhibitionPatch-Clamp TechniquesSynapsesSynaptic Transmission

Identifiers

PMID27161527
PMCPMC4882376
OpenAlexW2345478462

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