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J Neurophysiol 88: 3259-3278, 2002; doi:10.1152/jn.00770.2001
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J Neurophysiol (December 1, 2002). 10.1152/jn.00770.2001
Submitted on 17 September 2001
Accepted on 28 June 2002

Regional Analysis of Whole Cell Currents From Hair Cells of the Turtle Posterior Crista

Alan M. Brichta,1 Anne Aubert,3 Ruth Anne Eatock,3 and Jay M. Goldberg2

Departments of  1Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and  2Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637; and  3The Bobby R. Alford Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030

Brichta, Alan M., Anne Aubert, Ruth Anne Eatock, and Jay M. Goldberg. Regional Analysis of Whole Cell Currents From Hair Cells of the Turtle Posterior Crista. J. Neurophysiol. 88: 3259-3278, 2002. The turtle posterior crista is made up of two hemicristae, each consisting of a central zone containing type I and type II hair cells and a surrounding peripheral zone containing only type II hair cells and extending from the planum semilunatum to the nonsensory torus. Afferents from various regions of a hemicrista differ in their discharge properties. To see if afferent diversity is related to the basolateral currents of the hair cells innervated, we selectively harvested type I and II hair cells from the central zone and type II hair cells from two parts of the peripheral zone, one near the planum and the other near the torus. Voltage-dependent currents were studied with the whole cell, ruptured-patch method and characterized in voltage-clamp mode. We found regional differences in both outwardly and inwardly rectifying voltage-sensitive currents. As in birds and mammals, type I hair cells have a distinctive outwardly rectifying current (IK,L), which begins activating at more hyperpolarized voltages than do the outward currents of type II hair cells. Activation of IK,L is slow and sigmoidal. Maximal outward conductances are large. Outward currents in type II cells vary in their activation kinetics. Cells with fast kinetics are associated with small conductances and with partial inactivation during 200-ms depolarizing voltage steps. Almost all type II cells in the peripheral zone and many in the central zone have fast kinetics. Some type II cells in the central zone have large outward currents with slow kinetics and little inactivation. Although these currents resemble IK,L, they can be distinguished from the latter both electrophysiologically and pharmacologically. There are two varieties of inwardly rectifying currents in type II hair cells: activation of IK1 is rapid and monoexponential, whereas that of Ih is slow and sigmoidal. Many type II cells either have both inward currents or only have IK1; very few cells only have Ih. Inward currents are less conspicuous in type I cells. Type II cells near the torus have smaller outwardly rectifying currents and larger inwardly rectifying currents than those near the planum, but the differences are too small to account for variations in discharge properties of bouton afferents innervating the two regions of the peripheral zone. The large outward conductances seen in central cells, by lowering impedances, may contribute to the low rotational gains of some central-zone afferents.




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