Modification of the visual response properties of cerebellar neurons by norepinephrine
dc.contributor.author | Moises, Hylan C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Burne, Richard A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Woodward, Donald J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-10T13:45:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-10T13:45:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1990-04-30 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Moises, Hylan C., Burne, Richard A., Woodward, Donald J. (1990/04/30)."Modification of the visual response properties of cerebellar neurons by norepinephrine." Brain Research 514(2): 259-275. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28612> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6SYR-484778N-15D/2/aa0b0f28860b91f8b096a73c959bfee8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28612 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=2162710&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Extracellular recordings were conducted in the paraflocculus of anesthetized Long-Evans pigmented rats to determine how iontophoresis of norepinephrine (NE) affects the responsiveness of individual Purkinje cells and interneurons to presentations of visual stimuli within their visual receptive fields. Presentations of moving or stationary visual stimuli during the control (pre-NE) period elicited simple spike excitations or inhibitory responses in slightly more than one-half (55%, n = 32) of the cells tested (20 of 38 Purkinje cells, 12 of 20 interneurons). The predominant effect of NE iontophoresis was to improve visually evoked responses in those neurons which showed modulations in their simple spike discharge to control presentations of visual stimuli. A clear enhancement of visual responses by NE (i.e., absolute increase over control) was observed in 18 of the units, and in 12 of the 14 remaining cells, reductions in stimulus-bound discharge during catecholamine iontophoresis were accompanied by much larger depressions in background activity, resulting in a net enhancement in the ratio of signal-to-noise. NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased. However, the orientation bias of individual units was unchanged by NE. Iontophoretic application of the [beta]-adrenergic antagonist sotalol but not the [alpha]-adrenergic antagonist phentolamine blocked these facilitating noradrenergic effects. An additional feature of noradrenergic action was revealed in tests conducted in 26 cells which did not respond to control presentations of visual stimuli. Iontophoresis of NE resulted in the elicitation of visual responses in 11 of these units, suggesting the possibility that NE might act in some cases to gate the efficacy of subliminal synaptic input conveyed by classical afferent channels. It is proposed that an important aspect of noradrenergic action within local cerebellar circuits might be to refine the receptive field properties of individual neuronal elements and thereby improve information flow through the cerebellum. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Modification of the visual response properties of cerebellar neurons by norepinephrine | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Neurosciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Physiology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Advanced Technology Center, Allied-Bendix, Corp., Columbia, MD 21045, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75235, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 2162710 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/28612/1/0000424.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(90)91421-C | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Brain Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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