Cellular properties and modulation of the stomatogastric ganglion neurons of a stomatopod,Squilla oratoria |
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Authors: | K Tazaki C Chiba |
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Institution: | (1) Biological Laboratory, Nara University of Education, Takabatake, 630 Nara, Japan;(2) Present address: Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 305 Ibaraki, Japan |
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Abstract: | Cellular properties and modulation of the identified neurons of the posterior cardiac plate-pyloric system in the stomatogastric ganglion of a stomatopod, Squilla oratoria, were studied electrophysiologically. Each class of neurons involved in the cyclic bursting activity was able to trigger an endogenous, slow depolarizing potential (termed a driver potential) which sustained bursting. Endogenous oscillatory properties were demonstrated by the phase reset behavior in response to brief stimuli during ongoing rhythm. The driver potential was produced by membrane voltage-dependent activation and terminated by an active repolarization. Striking enhancement of bursting properties of all the cell types was induced by synaptic activation via extrinsic nerves, seen as increases in amplitude or duration of driver potentials, spiking rate during a burst, and bursting rate. The motor pattern produced under the influence of extrinsic modulatory inputs continued for a long time, relative to that in the absence of activation of modulatory inputs. Voltage-dependent conductance mechanisms underlying postinhibitory rebound and driver potential responses were modified by inputs. It is concluded that endogenous cellular properties, as well as synaptic circuitry and extrinsic inputs, contribute to generation of the rhythmic motor pattern, and that a motor system and its component neurons have been highly conserved during evolution between stomatopods and decapods.Abbreviations AB
anterior burster neuron
- CoG
commissural ganglion
- CPG
central pattern generator
- lvn
lateral ventricular nerve
- OG
oesophageal ganglion
- pcp
posterior cardiac plate
- PCP
pcp constrictor neuron
- PD
pyloric dilator neuron
- PY
pyloric constrictor neuron
- son
superior oesophageal nerve
- STG
stomatogastric ganglion
- stn
stomatogastric nerve |
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Keywords: | Stomatogastric ganglion Motoneurons Endogenous properties Modulation Stomatopods |
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