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ArticleThe Journal of physiology2017

Facilitation of mossy fibre-driven spiking in the cerebellar nuclei by the synchrony of inhibition.

Yeechan Wu, Indira M Raman

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Article in The Journal of physiology, 2017. 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
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3 · Its place in the literature

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Rate versus synchrony codes for cerebellar control of motor behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yeechan WuInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Indira M RamanInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5245-8177
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Training Program in Neurobiology of Information StorageT32MH067564 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniel A Dombeck · 2003 to 2026
$4.7M
IONIC CURRENTS AND SPIKING IN CEREBELLAR NUCLEAR NEURONSR01NS039395 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMAN, INDIRA M · 2000 to 2012
$3.7M
Ionic currents and spiking in cerebellar nuclear neuronsR37NS039395 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMAN, INDIRA M · 2014 to 2019
$3.3M
Ionic currents and spiking in cerebellar nuclear neuronsR56NS039395 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMAN, INDIRA M · 2013 to 2013
$465k
Integration of synaptic excitation and inhibition in the deep cerebellar nucleiF31NS092329 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI WU, YEECHAN · 2015 to 2017
$93k
NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH067564NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS092329NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS039395NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS039395NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS039395
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

key pointsLarge premotor neurons of the cerebellar nuclei (CbN cells) integrate synaptic inhibition from Purkinje neurons and synaptic excitation from mossy fibres to generate cerebellar output. We find that mossy fibre inputs to CbN cells generate unitary AMPA receptor EPSCs of ∼1 nS that decay in ∼1 ms and mildly voltage-dependent NMDA receptor EPSCs of ∼0.6 nS that decay in ∼7 ms. A few hundred mossy fibres active at a few tens of spikes s ABSTRACT: Large projection neurons of the cerebellar nuclei (CbN cells), whose activity generates movement, are inhibited by Purkinje cells and excited by mossy fibres. The high convergence, firing rates and strength of Purkinje inputs predict powerful suppression of CbN cell spiking, raising the question of what activity patterns favour excitation over inhibition. Recording from CbN cells at near-physiological temperatures in cerebellar slices from weanling mice, we measured the amplitude, kinetics, voltage dependence and short-term plasticity of mossy fibre-mediated EPSCs. Unitary EPSCs were small and brief (AMPA receptor, ∼1 nS, ∼1 ms; NMDA receptor, ∼0.6 nS, ∼7 ms) and depressed moderately. Using these experimentally measured parameters, we applied combinations of excitation and inhibition to CbN cells with dynamic clamp. Because Purkinje cells can fire coincident simple spikes during cerebellar behaviours, we varied the proportion (0-20 of 40) and precision (0-4 ms jitter) of synchrony of inhibitory inputs, along with the rates (0-100 spikes s

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AnimalsCerebellar NucleiExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsFemaleInhibitory Postsynaptic PotentialsMaleMice, Inbred C57BLMossy Fibers, HippocampalReceptors, AMPAReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateReceptors, AMPAReceptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartatecerebellumdeep cerebellar nucleidynamic clamppurkinje cellrate codingtemporal coding

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PMID28513836
PMCPMC5538193
OpenAlexW2615779887

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