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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 3 September 1998,
pp. 1495-1513
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society
Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Timofeev, Igor, François Grenier, and Mircea Steriade. Spike-wave complexes and fast components of cortically generated seizures. IV. Paroxysmal fast runs in cortical and thalamic neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 1495-1513, 1998. In the preceding papers of this series, we have analyzed the cellular patterns and synchronization of neocortical seizures occurring spontaneously or induced by electrical stimulation or cortical infusion of bicuculline under a variety of experimental conditions, including natural states of vigilance in behaving animals and acute preparations under different anesthetics. The seizures consisted of two distinct components: spike-wave (SW) or polyspike-wave (PSW) at 2-3 Hz and fast runs at 10-15 Hz. Because the thalamus is an input source and target of cortical neurons, we investigated here the seizure behavior of thalamic reticular (RE) and thalamocortical (TC) neurons, two major cellular classes that have often been implicated in the generation of paroxysmal episodes. We performed single and dual simultaneous intracellular recordings, in conjunction with multisite field potential and extracellular unit recordings, from neocortical areas and RE and/or dorsal thalamic nuclei under ketamine-xylazine and barbiturate anesthesia. Both components of seizures were analyzed, but emphasis was placed on the fast runs because of their recent investigation at the cellular level. 1) The fast runs occurred at slightly different frequencies and, therefore, were asynchronous in various cortical neuronal pools. Consequently, dorsal thalamic nuclei, although receiving convergent inputs from different neocortical areas involved in seizure, did not express strongly synchronized fast runs. 2) Both RE and TC cells were hyperpolarized during seizure episodes with SW/PSW complexes and relatively depolarized during the fast runs. As known, hyperpolarization of thalamic neurons deinactivates a low-threshold conductance that generates high-frequency spike bursts. Accordingly, RE neurons discharged prolonged high-frequency spike bursts in close time relation with the spiky component of cortical SW/PSW complexes, whereas they fired single action potentials, spike doublets, or triplets during the fast runs. In TC cells, the cortical fast runs were reflected as excitatory postsynaptic potentials appearing after short latencies that were compatible with monosynaptic activation through corticothalamic pathways. 3) The above data suggested the cortical origin of these seizures. To further test this hypothesis, we performed experiments on completely isolated cortical slabs from suprasylvian areas 5 or 7 and demonstrated that electrical stimulation within the slab induces seizures with fast runs and SW/PSW complexes, virtually identical to those elicited in intact-brain animals. The conclusion of all papers in this series is that complex seizure patterns, resembling those described at the electroencephalogram level in different forms of clinical seizures with SW/PSW complexes and, particularly, in the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome of humans, are generated in neocortex. Thalamic neurons reflect cortical events as a function of membrane potential in RE/TC cells and degree of synchronization in cortical neuronal networks.
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