Behavioral and physiological characterization of sensorimotor gating in the goldfish startle response

Journal of Neurophysiology
Heike NeumeisterThomas Preuss

Abstract

Prepulse inhibition (PPI) is typically associated with an attenuation of auditory startle behavior in mammals and is presumably mediated within the brainstem startle circuit. However, the inhibitory mechanisms underlying PPI are not yet clear. We addressed this question with complementary behavioral and in vivo electrophysiological experiments in the startle escape circuit of goldfish, the Mauthner cell (M-cell) system. In the behavioral experiments we observed a 77.5% attenuation (PPI) of startle escape probability following auditory prepulse-pulse stimulation. The PPI effect was observed for prepulse-pulse interstimulus intervals (ISIs) ranging from 20 to 600 ms and its magnitude depended linearly on prepulse intensity over a range of 14 dB. Electrophysiological recordings of synaptic responses to a sound pulse in the M-cell, which is the sensorimotor neuron initiating startle escapes, showed a 21% reduction in amplitude of the dendritic postsynaptic potential (PSP) and a 23% reduction of the somatic PSP following a prepulse. In addition, a prepulse evoked a long-lasting (500 ms) decrease in M-cell excitability indicated by 1) an increased threshold current, 2) an inhibitory shunt of the action potential (AP), and 3) by a lin...Continue Reading

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