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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 72, Issue 2 644-658, Copyright © 1994 by APS
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E. Barkai and M. E. Hasselmo
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.
1. In transverse brain slice preparations of rat piriform cortex, we characterized the repetitive firing properties of layer II pyramidal cells in control conditions (n = 78) and during perfusion of the cholinergic agonist carbachol (n = 26), with the ultimate goal of developing realistic computational simulations of the cholinergic modulation of the input/output function of these neurons. The response of neurons to prolonged (1 s) intracellular current injections was examined at a full range of current injection amplitudes, providing three-dimensional plots of firing frequency versus current amplitude versus time. 2. All neurons showed adaptation in response to intracellular current injection, with repetitive generation of action potentials at frequencies that were highest at the onset of the pulse and that decreased considerably thereafter. Substantial differences were observed between cells with regard to their rates of adaptation and the maximal number of action potentials they could generate during the current pulse. 3. The adaptation characteristics of each neuron were quantified by plotting the number of action potentials generated in 1 s as a function of the normalized current injection amplitude and measuring the area beneath this plot of the number of spikes versus current injection amplitude (S-I plot). This value was termed S-I value and allowed neurons to be plotted on a continuum including neurons showing strong adaptation (S-I value < 8.0) and neurons showing weak adaptation (S-I value > 8.0). The group showing weak adaptation contained 36% of the cells in control solution and 93.8% of the cells in 20 microM carbachol. 4. Neurons showing strong adaptation did not differ significantly from neurons showing weak adaptation in control conditions in measurements of resting potential, input resistance, threshold, and spike amplitude. Only a small difference was found in frequencies of firing measured soon after pulse onset (after 100 ms). This implies that differences in S-I values are primarily due to different rates of adaptation in later parts of the response. 5. Perfusion with solution containing the cholinergic agonist carbachol (2-100 microM) or 0 Ca2+ and 200 microM cadmium resulted in a substantial increase in the S-I values of neurons showing strong adaptation but had only a small effect on their initial firing rates. The effect on weakly adapting cells was smaller. In the presence of 20 microM carbachol, neurons showed a distribution shifted predominantly toward weak adaptation (n = 26).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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