The Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus: A Second Cholinergic Source for Frequency-Specific Auditory Plasticity

Journal of Neurophysiology - Tập 105 Số 1 - Trang 107-116 - 2011
Feng Luo1, Xiuping Liu2, Carol Chunfeng Wang1, Jun Yan1
1Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; and
2Health Science Centre, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, China

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Cholinergic modulation is essential for many brain functions and is an indispensable component of the prevalent models attempting to understand the neural mechanism responsible for learning-induced auditory plasticity. Unlike the cholinergic basal forebrain, the cholinergic pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) has received little attention. This study was designed to confirm whether the PPTg enables frequency-specific plasticity in the ventral division of the medial geniculate body of the thalamus (MGBv). Using the mouse model, we paired electrical stimulation of the PPTg with tone stimulation to help define the role of the PPTg. The receptive fields of MGBv neurons were examined before and after the paired stimulation; they were quantified in this study by best frequency (BF), response threshold, dynamic range, and spike number. We found that the electrical stimulation of the PPTg together with a tone presentation shifted the BFs of MGBv neurons upward when the frequency of the paired tone was higher than that of the control BF. Similarly, the BFs shifted downward when the frequency of the paired tone was lower than that of the control BF. The BFs of MGBv neurons, however, remained unchanged when the frequency of the paired tone was the same as that of the control BF. There was a linear relationship between the BF shift of MGBv neurons and the difference between the frequency of the paired tone and the control BF of MGBv neurons. Highly frequency specific changes were also observed in the response threshold, dynamic range, and spike number. This frequency-specific plasticity was largely eliminated by the microinjection of the muscarinic receptor antagonist atropine into the MGBv before the paired stimulation. Our findings suggest that the PPTg, like the cholinergic basal forebrain, is an important cholinergic source that enables frequency-specific plasticity in the central auditory system.

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Journal of Neurophysiology

Tập 105 Số 1

107-116

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