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Title	en Effects of Active Conductance Distribution over Dendrites on the Synaptic Integration in an Identified Nonspiking Interneuron
Creator	en Takashima, Akira en Takahata, Masakazu NRID 1000010111147
Accessrights	open access
Rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ en Creative Commons Attribution
Subject	NDC 481
Description	Abstract en The synaptic integration in individual central neuron is critically affected by how active conductances are distributed over dendrites. It has been well known that the dendrites of central neurons are richly endowed with voltage- and ligand-regulated ion conductances. Nonspiking interneurons (NSIs), almost exclusively characteristic to arthropod central nervous systems, do not generate action potentials and hence lack voltage-regulated sodium channels, yet having a variety of voltage-regulated potassium conductances on their dendritic membrane including the one similar to the delayed-rectifier type potassium conductance. It remains unknown, however, how the active conductances are distributed over dendrites and how the synaptic integration is affected by those conductances in NSIs and other invertebrate neurons where the cell body is not included in the signal pathway from input synapses to output sites. In the present study, we quantitatively investigated the functional significance of active conductance distribution pattern in the spatio-temporal spread of synaptic potentials over dendrites of an identified NSI in the crayfish central nervous system by computer simulation. We systematically changed the distribution pattern of active conductances in the neuron's multicompartment model and examined how the synaptic potential waveform was affected by each distribution pattern. It was revealed that specific patterns of nonuniform distribution of potassium conductances were consistent, while other patterns were not, with the waveform of compound synaptic potentials recorded physiologically in the major input-output pathway of the cell, suggesting that the possibility of nonuniform distribution of potassium conductances over the dendrite cannot be excluded as well as the possibility of uniform distribution. Local synaptic circuits involving input and output synapses on the same branch or on the same side were found to be potentially affected under the condition of nonuniform distribution while operation of the major input-output pathway from the soma side to the one on the opposite side remained the same under both conditions of uniform and nonuniform distribution of potassium conductances over the NSI dendrite.
Publisher	en Public Library of Science
Date	Issued2008-05-21
Language	eng
Resource Type	journal article
Version Type	VoR
Identifier	HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/42561
Relation	isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002217
Journal	PISSN 1932-6203 en PLoS One Volume Number3 Issue Number5 Page Starte2217
File	fulltext PLO3-5_e2217.pdf 868.18 KB (application/pdf) Issued2008-05-21
Oaidate	2023-07-26