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ArticleScientific reports2018

Spinal cholinergic interneurons differentially control motoneuron excitability and alter the locomotor network operational range.

Maria Bertuzzi, Konstantinos Ampatzis

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Adult spinal motoneurons change their neurotransmitter phenotype to control locomotion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria BertuzziDepartment of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
Konstantinos AmpatzisDepartment of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. Konstantinos.Ampatzis@ki.se.
Karolinska Institutet · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While cholinergic neuromodulation is important for locomotor circuit operation, the specific neuronal mechanisms that acetylcholine employs to regulate and fine-tune the speed of locomotion are largely unknown. Here, we show that cholinergic interneurons are present in the zebrafish spinal cord and differentially control the excitability of distinct classes of motoneurons (slow, intermediate and fast) in a muscarinic dependent manner. Moreover, we reveal that m2-type muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) are present in fast and intermediate motoneurons, but not in the slow motoneurons, and that their activation decreases neuronal firing. We also reveal a strong correlation between the muscarinic receptor configuration on motoneurons and the ability of the animals to locomote at different speeds, which might serve as a plasticity mechanism to alter the operational range of the locomotor networks. These unexpected findings provide new insights into the functional flexibility of motoneurons and how they execute locomotion at different speeds.

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AnimalsCholinergic NeuronsInterneuronsLocomotionModels, BiologicalMotor NeuronsReceptors, MuscarinicSpinal CordZebrafishReceptors, Muscarinic

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PMID29386582
PMCPMC5792632
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