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- From: senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Subject: Re: primary afferent depolarization
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:36:42 GMT
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- In article <9301251254.AA21883@xray1.cshl.org> anderson@CSHL.ORG (John Anderson) writes:
- >I have been reading
- >
- > Sykova E. (1991) "Activity-related ionic and volume changes in
- > neuronal microenvironment" in _Volume Transmission in the Brain_ (K.
- > Fuxe, L.F. Agnati, Eds.), pp 317-336, Raven Press, New York.
- >
- >In that article, the following statement is made:
- >
- > "[Extracellular] K+ accumulation has been accepted as one of two
- > causal factors (together with GABA) in primary afferent
- > depolarization, which is the mechanism underlying presynaptic
- > inhibition. It is assumed that the increase in [K+]e that is
- > associated with repetitive neuronal activity reduces transmitter
- > release by curtailing the presynaptic spike amplitude by presynaptic
- > depolarization."
- >
- >Could someone please explain this statement? How does presynaptic
- >depolarization reduce the presynaptic spike amplitude? Seems like it
- >should enhance it.
- >
-
- PAD (primary afferent depolarization) isn't all that mysterious.
- Why would expect depolarization to ENHANCE transmitter release?
- Assuming that the axonal spike completely invades all the terminals,
- (probably a reasonable assumption for most systems Eva was
- referring to), then depolarization would DECREASE syanptic release
- simply because the membrane potential of the presynaptic terminal
- would be closer to V which is going to be somewhere above +100 mv.
- Ca
-
- (Hard to do subscripts :)
-
- That means the electrical force driving Ca inward would be reduced
- so that calcium entry during the terminal spike would be reduced.
- Since transmitter release is dependent on entry of external Ca,
- less transmitter release would occur.
-
- If you get enough PAD so that the terminal membrane is really
- depolarized, then additional factors could come into to play
- such as channel inactivation.
-
-
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