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ArticleThe Journal of physiology1993

The electrical geometry, electrical properties and synaptic connections onto rat V motoneurones in vitro.

J C Curtis, K Appenteng

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Article in The Journal of physiology, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Regulation of intrinsic and synaptic properties of neonatal rat trigeminal motoneurons by metabotropic glutamate receptors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 1998
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J C CurtisDepartment of Physiology, University of Leeds.
K Appenteng
University of Leeds · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

1. We have developed a tissue slice preparation which allows the study of the actions of single presynaptic neurones onto single trigeminal motoneurones in the immature rat. Our aim in this first stage of the work has been to assess the validity of this preparation as a model for responses obtained in vivo from trigeminal motoneurones in adult rats. We have quantified the integrative properties of the motoneurones and also the variability in transmission at synapses of single presynaptic neurones onto the motoneurones. This data has then been compared to similar published data obtained from adult (rat) trigeminal motoneurones in vivo. 2. Quantitative reconstructions were made of the morphology of three motoneurones which had been labelled with biocytin by intracellular injection. The neurones gave off six to nine dendrites, of mean length 522 microns (S.D. = 160; n = 22), which branched on average 10.5 times to produce 11.45 end-terminations per dendrite (S.D. = 8.57; n = 22). The mean surface area of the dendrites was 0.92 x 10(4) microns2 (S.D. = 0.67; n = 22), and, for individual cells, the ratio of the combined dendritic surface area to the total neuronal surface area ranged from 98.3 to 99.2% (n = 3). At dendritic branch points the ratio of the summed diameters of the daughter dendrites to the 3/2 power against the parent dendrite to the 3/2 power was 1.09 (S.D. = 0.21; n = 217), allowing branch points to be collapsed into a single cylinder. The equivalent cylinder diameter of the combined dendritic tree remained approximately constant over the proximal 25-40% of the equivalent electrical length of the dendritic tree and then showed tapering. The tapering could be ascribed to termination of dendrites at different electrical distances from the soma. 3. Electrical properties were determined for a total of eighty-seven motoneurones, all with membrane potentials more negative than 60 mV (mean = 66.0 mV; S.D. = 5.2) and spikes which overshot zero (mean spike amplitude = 77 mV; S.D. = 10.5; n = 87). The spikes were followed by after-hyperpolarizations (AHPs) of mean amplitude 2.2 mV (S.D. = 1.7; n = 47), and mean duration 54.1 ms (S.D. = 9.5; n = 47). The mean input resistance of the neurones was 7.5 M omega (S.D. = 2.5; n = 69), the mean membrane time constant was 3.5 ms (S.D. = 2.2; n = 35), and the mean rheobase was 1.6 nA (S.D. = 1.1; n = 56).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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AnimalsCell MembraneDendritesElectrophysiologyEvoked PotentialsHistocytochemistryHorseradish PeroxidaseIn Vitro TechniquesLysineMembrane PotentialsMicroelectrodesMotor NeuronsPresynaptic TerminalsRatsSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionbiocytinHorseradish PeroxidaseLysineWheat Germ Agglutinins

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