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J Neurophysiol (December 4, 2002). doi:10.1152/jn.00709.2002
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Submitted on August 20, 2002
Accepted on November 30, 2002

Dendritic Ca2+ transients evoked by action potentials in rat dorsal cochlear nucleus pyramidal and cartwheel neurons

Scott C. Molitor1* and Paul B. Manis2

1 Department of Bioengineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
2 Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: smolitor{at}eng.utoledo.edu.

Simultaneous fluorescence imaging and electrophysiologic recordings were used to investigate the Ca2+ influx initiated by action potentials (APs) into dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) pyramidal cell (PC) and cartwheel cell (CWC) dendrites. Local application of Cd2+ blocked Ca2+ transients in PC and CWC dendrites, demonstrating that the Ca2+ influx was initiated by dendritic Ca2+ channels. In PCs, TTX eliminated the dendritic Ca2+ transients when APs were completely blocked. However, the Ca2+ influx could be partially recovered during an incomplete block of APs, or when a large depolarization was substituted for the blocked APs. In CWCs, dendritic Ca2+ transients evoked by individual APs, or simple spikes, were blocked by TTX and could be recovered during an incomplete block of APs or by a large depolarization. In contrast, dendritic Ca2+ transients evoked by complex spikes, a burst of APs superimposed upon a slow depolarization, were not blocked by TTX, despite eliminating the APs superimposed upon the slow depolarization. These results suggest two different mechanisms for the retrograde activation of dendritic Ca2+ channels: the first requires fast Na+ channel-mediated APs or a large somatic depolarization, whereas the second is independent of Na+ channel activation, requiring only the slow depolarization underlying complex spikes.




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