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Synaptic integration in spinal motoneurones.

M D Binder1, R K Powers

  • 1Department of Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.

Journal of Physiology, Paris
|March 20, 1999
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Concurrent activation of synaptic inputs on spinal motoneurones generally results in linear interactions. This suggests that the spatial arrangement of synapses on motoneurones helps minimize non-linear effects during simultaneous activation.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Spinal motoneurones integrate thousands of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs.
  • Limited research exists on how these inputs interact during concurrent activation in mammals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interaction of concurrent synaptic inputs in mammalian spinal motoneurones.
  • To compare observed synaptic effects with predictions from linear summation.

Main Methods:

  • Measured effective synaptic currents in cat spinal motoneurones.
  • Assessed changes in motoneurone firing rate during concurrent activation of two distinct presynaptic neuron sets.
  • Compared experimental results to a linear sum of individual input effects.

Main Results:

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  • Concurrent activation of synaptic inputs typically produced linear effective synaptic currents.
  • Synaptically-evoked changes in firing rate were generally linear or slightly sub-linear compared to individual inputs.
  • Observed interactions closely approximated linear summation.

Conclusions:

  • Synaptic input interactions in spinal motoneurones are largely linear during concurrent activation.
  • The spatial distribution of synaptic terminals on dendritic trees may contribute to minimizing non-linear interactions.
  • Motoneurone dendritic architecture likely plays a role in input integration.