Physiology and pharmacology of corticothalamic stimulation-evoked responses in rat somatosensory thalamic neurons in vitro

Journal of Neurophysiology
C Q Kao, D A Coulter

Abstract

Whole cell current- and voltage-clamp recording techniques were employed in a rat thalamocortical slice preparation to characterize corticothalamic stimulation-evoked responses in thalamic neurons. Three types of corticothalamic stimulation-evoked responses were observed in thalamic neurons. Of thalamic neurons, 57% responded to corticothalamic stimulation with purely excitatory synaptic responses, whereas 27% had inhibitory synaptic responses and 16% had mixed excitatory/inhibitory responses. This suggested corticothalamic activation of multiple distinct synaptic circuits, presumably involving both nucleus reticularis thalami (NRT) and thalamus, because the rat ventrobasal complex is virtually devoid of GABAergic interneurons. Corticothalamic-stimulation-evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) were predominantly slow rising currents that showed nonlinear voltage dependence, characteristics of an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-receptor-mediated synaptic current. These slow rising EPSCs were blocked by the NMDA antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV). A minority of corticothalamic EPSCs had faster kinetics, and were blocked by 6-cyano-7 nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX). Corticothalamic stimulation of varying frequ...Continue Reading

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