耳放大调节了耳核中发生的突触的末端的突触传输
Fang Wang1, Yige Li1, Geng-Lin Li2,3
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, ENT institute, and NHC Key Laboratory of Hearing Medicine, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200031, China.
概括
外部毛细胞的耳放大显著影响听觉神经信号. 在小鼠中去除这种放大,改变了大脑干中的突触功能,增加了细胞刺激能力,降低了信号强度.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 听觉系统生理学 听觉系统生理学
- 感官传导 感官传导
背景情况:
- 哺乳动物耳中的外部毛细胞 (OHC) 放大声音振动,扩大听觉的动态范围.
- 这种耳放大对中央听觉处理和神经编码的影响尚不清楚.
- 了解这种相互作用对于理解听觉信号处理至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究耳放大缺失如何影响中央听觉通路中的突触传输.
- 检查在耳扩大基因被删除时耳核的功能变化.
- 揭示外围听觉处理和中央神经回路之间的相互作用.
主要方法:
- 使用Prestin淘汰赛 (Prestin-/-) 小鼠,以消除耳放大,同时保持耳结构.
- 在听觉神经纤维和耳核灌木细胞之间的赫尔德突触的末泡上进行了电生理学评估的突触传播.
- 分析了灌木细胞刺激性,突触强度和对脉冲可塑性的变化.
主要成果:
- 在Prestin-/-小鼠中,由于改变了静止膜潜力和输入电阻,布希细胞刺激性显著增加.
- 赫尔德的端球的突触强度大大降低,这与容易释放的囊泡池 (RRP) 的减少有关.
- 配对脉冲可塑性从抑郁 (WT) 逆转为促进 (Prestin- / -),表明更快的RRP重新填充.
结论:
- 耳放大缺失显著改变了耳核中的突触传输.
- 这些发现强调了外围声音处理和中央听觉电路之间的积极相互作用.
- 这种相互作用有助于扩大哺乳动物观察到的听觉动态范围.
更多相关视频
11:45Postsynaptic Recordings at Afferent Dendrites Contacting Cochlear Inner Hair Cells: Monitoring Multivesicular Release at a Ribbon Synapse
Published on: February 10, 2011
19.2K
10:31In Vitro Wedge Slice Preparation for Mimicking In Vivo Neuronal Circuit Connectivity
Published on: August 18, 2020
6.1K
相关概念视频
The Cochlea
51.5K
The cochlea is a coiled structure in the inner ear that contains hair cells—the sensory receptors of the auditory system. Sound waves are transmitted to the cochlea by small bones attached to the eardrum called the ossicles, which vibrate the oval window that leads to the inner ear. This causes fluid in the chambers of the cochlea to move, vibrating the basilar membrane.
51.5K
Auditory Pathway
7.6K
Auditory pathways constitute the complex neural circuits responsible for transmitting and interpreting auditory information from the peripheral auditory system to the brain. Sound waves are initially captured by the outer ear, funneled through the ear canal, and reach the tympanic membrane (eardrum). These vibrations are transmitted via the middle ear's ossicles to the inner ear's cochlea.
When viewed cross-sectionally, the cochlea reveals the scala vestibuli and scala tympani flanking...
When viewed cross-sectionally, the cochlea reveals the scala vestibuli and scala tympani flanking...
7.6K
Hair Cells
45.4K
Hair cells are the sensory receptors of the auditory system—they transduce mechanical sound waves into electrical energy that the nervous system can understand. Hair cells are located in the organ of Corti within the cochlea of the inner ear, between the basilar and tectorial membranes. The actual sensory receptors are called inner hair cells. The outer hair cells serve other functions, such as sound amplification in the cochlea, and are not discussed in detail here.
45.4K
Integration of Synaptic Events
4.3K
Synaptic integration mainly includes the summation of graded potentials. Graded potentials, regardless of their type, cause subtle alterations in membrane voltage, resulting in either depolarization or hyperpolarization. These incremental changes, when combined or summed, can propel the neuron toward its threshold. Consider, for example, a membrane experiencing a +15 mV shift, causing it to depolarize from -70 mV to -55 mV. In this scenario, graded potentials govern the membrane's ability to...
4.3K
Anatomy of the Ear
12.0K
Auditory sensation, commonly called hearing, involves the transformation of sonic waves into neural impulses facilitated by the structures of the auditory organ. The prominent, flesh-like structure on the side of the head, called the auricle, directs sound waves towards the auditory canal. The auricle is often mislabeled as the pinna, a term more aligned with mobile structures like a feline's external ear. The auditory canal penetrates the cranium via the external auditory meatus of the...
12.0K
Long-term Potentiation
3.7K
Long-term potentiation, or LTP, is one of the ways by which synaptic plasticity—changes in the strength of chemical synapses—can occur in the brain. LTP is the process of synaptic strengthening that occurs over time between pre and postsynaptic neuronal connections. The synaptic strengthening of LTP works in opposition to the synaptic weakening of long-term depression (LTD) and together are the main mechanisms that underlie learning and memory.
Hebbian LTP
LTP can occur when...
Hebbian LTP
LTP can occur when...
3.7K
