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La conducción de comportamientos opuestos con conjuntos de neuronas piriformes
Gloria B Choi1, Dan D Stettler, Benjamin R Kallman
1Department of Neuroscience and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Cell
|September 20, 2011
Resumen
La corteza piriforme puede generar comportamientos aprendidos, incluso sin entrada sensorial. Grupos específicos de neuronas, cuando se activan y se emparejan con recompensas o choques, provocan respuestas de comportamiento distintas, lo que demuestra la corteza cerebral.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La neurociencia es la neurociencia.
- Investigación del sistema olfativo de investigación del sistema olfativo.
- Neurociencia del comportamiento neurociencia del comportamiento.
Sus antecedentes:
- Se pensaba que la corteza piriforme, crucial para el olfato, requería información sensorial para la representación del olor.
- Los modelos existentes sugieren que el significado del olor se aprende a través de la experiencia.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar si la activación de poblaciones específicas de neuronas de la corteza piriforme puede inducir comportamientos aprendidos sin entrada sensorial.
- Para determinar si distintas subpoblaciones de neuronas pueden ser controladas de forma independiente para obtener diferentes respuestas aprendidas.
Principales métodos:
- Activación optogenética de las neuronas de la corteza piriforme que expresan canalrodopsina (ChR2) en roedores.
- Emparejar la activación neuronal con estímulos apetitosos (recompensa) o aversivos (shock).
- Prueba de la capacidad de discriminar y atraer a diferentes subpoblaciones neuronales para distintos resultados de comportamiento.
Principales resultados:
- La activación de subpoblaciones específicas de neuronas de la corteza piriforme, cuando se empareja con recompensa o choque, provoca de manera confiable comportamientos apetitosos o aversivos.
- Demostró que distintas subpoblaciones neuronales podían ser controladas independientemente para producir diferentes comportamientos aprendidos.
- Se demostró que la corteza piriforme es suficiente para generar salidas de comportamiento aprendidas sin estimulación sensorial concurrente.
Conclusiones:
- La corteza piriforme puede generar salidas de comportamiento aprendidas independientemente de la entrada sensorial directa.
- Los comportamientos olfativos aprendidos pueden ser provocados por la activación específica de conjuntos específicos de neuronas de la corteza piriforme.
- Estos hallazgos desafían los modelos en los que la corteza piriforme se basa únicamente en la organización espacial para la identidad del olor y el mapeo del comportamiento de salida.
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