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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Genetically eliminating Purkinje neuron GABAergic neurotransmission increases their response gain to vestibular motion.

Trace L Stay, Jean Laurens, Roy V Sillitoe, Dora E Angelaki

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Simple spike dynamics of Purkinje cells in the macaque vestibulo-cerebellum during passive whole-body self-motion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  9. Disease models & mechanisms · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Trace L StayDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.ORCID 0000-0001-9849-8924
Jean LaurensDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
Roy V SillitoeDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; sillitoe@bcm.edu da93@nyu.edu.
Dora E AngelakiDepartment of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; sillitoe@bcm.edu da93@nyu.edu.
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Steps towards a paternal gene activation therapy for Angelman syndromeU54HD083092 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI NELSON, DAVID LOREN, NEUL, JEFFREY L · 2014 to 2019
$7.8M
CEREBELLAR FUNCTION IN TREMORR01NS100874 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SILLITOE, ROY VINCENT · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
SYNAPTIC ORIGINS OF CEREBELLAR DISEASER01NS089664 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SILLITOE, ROY VINCENT · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
Inertial and multisensory influences on entorhinal grid cellsR21NS098146 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI ANGELAKI, DORA · 2016 to 2017
$436k
Cerebellar computations for sensing self-motionF31NS095491 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI STAY, TRACE LAMAR · 2015 to 2018
$132k
NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD083092NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS095491NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089664NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100874NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS098146
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purkinje neurons in the caudal cerebellar vermis combine semicircular canal and otolith signals to segregate linear and gravitational acceleration, evidence for how the cerebellum creates internal models of body motion. However, it is not known which cerebellar circuit connections are necessary to perform this computation. We first showed that this computation is evolutionarily conserved and represented across multiple lobules of the rodent vermis. Then we tested whether Purkinje neuron GABAergic output is required for accurately differentiating linear and gravitational movements through a conditional genetic silencing approach. By using extracellular recordings from lobules VI through X in awake mice, we show that silencing Purkinje neuron output significantly alters their baseline simple spike variability. Moreover, the cerebellum of genetically manipulated mice continues to distinguish linear from gravitational acceleration, suggesting that the underlying computations remain intact. However, response gain is significantly increased in the mutant mice over littermate controls. Altogether, these data argue that Purkinje neuron feedback regulates gain control within the cerebellar circuit.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsCerebellar VermisGABAergic NeuronsGravitationMicePurkinje CellsSemicircular CanalsSynaptic TransmissionVestibule, Labyrinthcerebellumelectrophysiologyinternal modeltransgenic micevestibular

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PMID30723151
PMCPMC6386715
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