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Long-lasting enhancement in the intrinsic excitability of deep dorsal horn neurons
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- Issue Date
- 2008-05-13
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Citation
- Pain. 2008;139(1):181-189
- Keywords
- Action Potentials/physiology ; Animals ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Neuronal Plasticity/physiology ; Posterior Horn Cells/*physiology ; Rats
- Abstract
- Intrinsic excitability (IE) can be defined as an output of action potentials from a given input signal. Changes to the IE of a neuron are an important aspect of the cellular plasticity that underlies learning and memory process. In this study, long-term plastic change in IE of deep dorsal horn neurons (DHNs) was investigated. Associative spike pairing stimulation (PS) induced a long-lasting increase in IE. Buffering intracellular calcium with BAPTA (10mM) prevented the induction of a long-lasting increase in IE. PS failed to induce a long-lasting increase in IE in the presence of either D-APV (50 microM) or cadmium chloride (100 microM). Apamin (100 nM) partially blocked the induction of a long-lasting increase in IE. This intrinsic plasticity requires a rise in postsynaptic Ca(2+) and NMDA receptor activation during the induction period, and this process might be mediated by the down-regulation of small-conductance calcium-dependent potassium (SK) channels. In deep DHNs, PS induced excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP)-spike (E-S) potentiation, which increases the firing probability and the number of spikes, by consistent dorsal rootlet stimulation. Under bath application of bicuculline (10 microM) and strychnine (1 microM), PS induced E-S potentiation and long-lasting increases in IE. These results suggest that an increase in IE might underlie E-S potentiation, while a reduction in inhibitory transmission does not contribute to E-S potentiation and long-lasting increases in IE. We conclude that PS enhances the IE of deep DHNs, which may play an important role in spinal processing of nociceptive information.
- ISSN
- 1872-6623 (Electronic)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18472218
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https://hdl.handle.net/10371/68151
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