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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience1998

Differences in Ca2+ channels governing generation of miniature and evoked excitatory synaptic currents in spinal laminae I and II.

J Bao, J J Li, E R Perl

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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62 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J BaoDepartment of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7545, USA.
J J Li
E R Perl
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

SPINAL AND PROJECTION MECHANISMS RELATED TO PAINR01NS010321 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PERL, EDWARD R · 1985 to 2008
$2.4M
NEUREGULIN SIGNALLING AT THE NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSEF32NS010321 · NINDS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI FROMM, LARRY B · 1996 to 1999
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NINDS NIH HHS F32 NS010321NINDS NIH HHS NS10321NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS010321
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many neurons of spinal laminae I and II, a region concerned with pain and other somatosensory mechanisms, display frequent miniature "spontaneous" EPSCs (mEPSCs). In a number of instances, mEPSCs occur often enough to influence neuronal excitability. To compare generation of mEPSCs to EPSCs evoked by dorsal root stimulation (DR-EPSCs), various agents affecting neuronal activity and Ca2+ channels were applied to in vitro slice preparations of rodent spinal cord during tight-seal, whole-cell, voltage-clamp recordings from laminae I and II neurons. The AMPA/kainate glutamate receptor antagonist CNQX (10-20 microM) regularly abolished DR-EPSCs. In many neurons CNQX also eliminated mEPSCs; however, in a number of cases a proportion of the mEPSCs were resistant to CNQX suggesting that in these instances different mediators or receptors were also involved. Cd2+ (10-50 microM) blocked evoked EPSCs without suppressing mEPSC occurrence. In contrast, Ni2+ (</=100 microM), a low-threshold Ca2+ channel antagonist, markedly decreased mEPSC frequency while leaving evoked monosynaptic EPSCs little changed. Selective organic antagonists of high-threshold (HVA) Ca2+ channels, nimodipine, omega-Conotoxin GVIA, and Agatoxin IVA partially suppressed DR-EPSCs, however, they had little or no effect on mEPSC frequency. La3+ and mibefradil, agents interfering with low-threshold Ca2+ channels, regularly decreased mEPSC frequency with little effect on fast-evoked EPSCs. Increased [K+]o (5-10 mM) in the superfusion, producing modest depolarizations, consistently increased mEPSC frequency; an increase suppressed by mibefradil but not by HVA Ca2+ channel antagonists. Together these observations indicate that different Ca2+ channels are important for evoked EPSCs and mEPSCs in spinal laminae I and II and implicate a low-threshold type of Ca2+ channel in generation of mEPSCs.

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PMID9786981
PMCPMC6793560
OpenAlexW1799107001

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