Spinal cord injury significantly alters the properties of reticulospinal neurons : delayed repolarization mediated by potassium channels
After rostral spinal cord injury (SCI) of lampreys, the descending axons of injured (axotomized) reticulospinal (RS) neurons regenerate and locomotor function gradually recovers. Our previous studies indicated that relative to uninjured lamprey RS neurons, injured RS neurons display several dramatic changes in their biophysical properties, called the "injury phenotype." In the present study, at the onset of applied depolarizing current pulses for membrane potentials below as well as above threshold for action potentials (APs), injured RS neurons displayed a transient depolarization consisting of an initial depolarizing component followed by a delayed repolarizing component. In contrast, for uninjured neurons the transient depolarization was mostly only evident at suprathreshold voltages when APs were blocked. For injured RS neurons, the delayed repolarizing component resisted depolarization to threshold and made these neurons less excitable than uninjured RS neurons. After block of voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels for injured RS neurons, the transient depolarization was still present. After a further block of voltage-gated potassium channels, the delayed repolarizing component was abolished or significantly reduced, with little or no effect on the initial depolarizing component. Voltage-clamp experiments indicated that the delayed repolarizing component was due to a noninactivating outward-rectifying potassium channel whose conductance (gK) was significantly larger for injured RS neurons compared to that for uninjured neurons. Thus, SCI results in an increase in gK and other changes in the biophysical properties of injured lamprey RS neurons that lead to a reduction in excitability, which is proposed to create an intracellular environment that supports axonal regeneration.NEW & NOTEWORTHY After spinal cord injury (SCI), lamprey reticulospinal (RS) neurons responded to subthreshold depolarizing current pulses with a transient depolarization, which included an initial depolarization that was due to passive channels followed by a delayed repolarization that was mediated by voltage-gated potassium channels. The conductance of these channels (gK) was significantly increased for RS neurons after SCI and contributed to a reduction in excitability, which is expected to provide supportive conditions for subsequent axonal regeneration.
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Journal of neurophysiology - 130(2023), 5 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1265-1281 |
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Hough, Ryan A [VerfasserIn] |
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| 520 | |a After rostral spinal cord injury (SCI) of lampreys, the descending axons of injured (axotomized) reticulospinal (RS) neurons regenerate and locomotor function gradually recovers. Our previous studies indicated that relative to uninjured lamprey RS neurons, injured RS neurons display several dramatic changes in their biophysical properties, called the "injury phenotype." In the present study, at the onset of applied depolarizing current pulses for membrane potentials below as well as above threshold for action potentials (APs), injured RS neurons displayed a transient depolarization consisting of an initial depolarizing component followed by a delayed repolarizing component. In contrast, for uninjured neurons the transient depolarization was mostly only evident at suprathreshold voltages when APs were blocked. For injured RS neurons, the delayed repolarizing component resisted depolarization to threshold and made these neurons less excitable than uninjured RS neurons. After block of voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels for injured RS neurons, the transient depolarization was still present. After a further block of voltage-gated potassium channels, the delayed repolarizing component was abolished or significantly reduced, with little or no effect on the initial depolarizing component. Voltage-clamp experiments indicated that the delayed repolarizing component was due to a noninactivating outward-rectifying potassium channel whose conductance (gK) was significantly larger for injured RS neurons compared to that for uninjured neurons. Thus, SCI results in an increase in gK and other changes in the biophysical properties of injured lamprey RS neurons that lead to a reduction in excitability, which is proposed to create an intracellular environment that supports axonal regeneration.NEW & NOTEWORTHY After spinal cord injury (SCI), lamprey reticulospinal (RS) neurons responded to subthreshold depolarizing current pulses with a transient depolarization, which included an initial depolarization that was due to passive channels followed by a delayed repolarization that was mediated by voltage-gated potassium channels. The conductance of these channels (gK) was significantly increased for RS neurons after SCI and contributed to a reduction in excitability, which is expected to provide supportive conditions for subsequent axonal regeneration | ||
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