Agonistic-like responses from the torus semicircularis dorsalis elicited by GABAA blockade in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus carapo

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 945-955

  Duarte, T T ^a   Correa S A I ^b   Santana, U J ^c   Pereira, A S F ^a   Hoffmann, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agonistic behavior; Electric fish; Electromotor modulation; GABA ergic system; Torus semicircularis dorsalis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; MICROINJECTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

GYMNOTUS CARAPO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746377327     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006000700013     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Black-Cleworth P. The role of electrical discharges in the nonreproductive social behavior of Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotidae, Pisces). Anim Behav Monogr 1970; 31: 1-17.
2. Kawasaki M, Heiligenberg W. Distinct mechanisms of modulation in a neuronal oscillator generate different social signals in the electric fish Hypopomus. J Comp Physiol [A] 1989; 165: 731-741.
3. Keller CH, Kawasaki M, Heiligenberg W. The control of pacemaker modulations for social communication in the weakly electric fish Sternopygus. J Comp Physiol [A] 1991; 169: 441-450.
4. Bennett MV. Electrolocation in fish. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1971; 188: 242-269.
5. Dye J C, Meyer JH. Electroreception. In: Bullock TH, Heiligenberg W (Editors), Electroreception. New York: Wiley; 1986, p 71-102.
6. Spiro JE. Differential activation of glutamate receptor subtypes on a single class of cells enables a neural oscillator to produce distinct behaviors. J Neurophysiol 1997; 78: 835-847.
7. Smith GT, Lu Y, Zakon HH. Parvocells: a novel interneuron type in the pacemaker nucleus of a weakly electric fish. J Comp Neurol 2000; 423: 427-439.
8. Heiligenberg W, Finger T, Matsubara J, Carr C. Input to the medullary pacemaker nucleus in the weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia (Sternopygidae, Gymnotiformes). Brain Res 1981; 211: 418-423.
9. Kawasaki M, Heiligenberg W. Individual prepacemaker neurons can modulate the pacemaker cycle of the gymnotiform electric fish, Eigenmannia. J Comp Physiol [A] 1988; 162: 13-21.
10. Metzner W. The jamming avoidance response in Eigenmannia is controlled by two separate motor pathways. J Neurosci 1993; 13: 1862-1878.
11. Heiligenberg W, Metzner W, Wong CJ, Keller CH. Motor control of the jamming avoidance response of Apteronotus leptorhynchus: evolutionary changes of a behavior and its neuronal substrates. J Comp Physiol [A] 1996; 179: 653-674.
12. Carr CE, Maler L, Heiligenberg W, Sas E. Laminar organization of the afferent and efferent systems of the torus semicircularis of gymnotiform fish: morphological substrates for parallel processing in the electrosensory system. J Comp Neurol 1981; 203: 649-670.
13. Bastian J, Yuthas J. The jamming avoidance response of Eigenmannia: Properties of a diencephalic link between sensory processing and motor output. J Comp Physiol [A] 1984; 154: 895-908.
14. Keller CH. Stimulus discrimination in the diencephalon of Eigenmannia: the emergence and sharpening of a sensory filter. J Comp Physiol [A] 1988; 162: 747-757.
15. Meek JR, Nieuwenhuys R. Holosteans and teleosts. In: Nieuwenhuys R, ten Donkelaar HJ, Nicholson C (Editors), The central nervous system of vertebrates. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag; 1998. p 855.
16. Heiligenberg W, Rose G. Phase and amplitude computations in the midbrain of an electric fish: intracellular studies of neurons participating in the jamming avoidance response of Eigenmannia. J Neurosci 1985; 5: 515-531.
17. Grau HJ, Bastian J. Neural correlates of novelty detection in pulse-type weakly electric fish. J Comp Physiol [A] 1986; 159: 191-200.
18. Lissmann HW. On the function and evolution of electric organs in fish. J Exp Biol 1958; 35: 156-191.
19. Correa SAL, Hoffmann A. Novelty response in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus carapo: seasonal differences and the participation of the telencephalon in its modulation. Comp Biochem Physiol 1998; 119: 255-262.
20. Kawasaki M, Heiligenberg W. Different classes of glutamate receptors and GABA mediate distinct modulations of a neuronal oscillator, the medullary pacemaker of a gymnotiform electric fish. J Neurosci 1990; 10: 3896-3904.
21. Dye JC, Heiligenberg W, Keller CH, Kawasaki M. Different classes of glutamate receptors mediate distinct behaviors in a single brain-stem nucleus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86: 8993-8997.
22. Kennedy G, Heiligenberg W. Ultrastructural evidence of GABA-ergic inhibition and glutamatergic excitation in the pacemaker nucleus of the gymnotiform electric fish, Hypopomus. J Comp Physiol [A] 1994; 174: 267-280.
23. Santana UJ, Roque-da-Silva AC, Duarte TT, Correa SA. Interference with the GABAergic system in the dorsolateral telencephalon and modulation of the electric organ discharge frequency in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus carapo. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2001; 187: 925-933.
24. Sparks DL. Translation of sensory signals into commands for control of saccadic eye movements: role of primate superior colliculus. Physiol Rev 1986; 66: 118-171.
25. Dean P, Redgrave P, Westby GW. Event or emergency? Two response systems in the mammalian superior colliculus. Trends Neurosci 1989; 12: 137-147.
26. Brandão ML, Tomaz C, Borges PC, Coimbra NC, Bagri A. Defense reaction induced by microinjections of bicuculline into the inferior colliculus. Physiol Behav 1988; 44: 361-365.
27. Cardoso SH, Coimbra NC, Brandão ML. Defensive reactions evoked by activation of NMDA receptors in distinct sites of the inferior colliculus. Behav Brain Res 1994; 63: 17-24.
28. Hoffmann A, Brazil Romero SM, de Oliveira LM. Agonistic behavior and its cardiovascular components elicited by microinjection of L-glutamic acid into the basal midbrain of the toad Bufo paracnemis. Brain Behav Evol 1993; 41: 316-325.
29. Moreira FA, Molchanov ML, Guimarães FS. Flight reactions to nitric oxide in the inferior colliculus of rats depend on NMDA receptor activation. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2003; 76: 35-41.
30. Carr CE, Maier L. A Golgi study of the cell types of the dorsal torus semicircularis of the electric fish Eigenmannia: functional and morphological diversity in the midbrain. J Comp Neurol 1985; 235: 207-240.
31. Correa SA, Correa FM, Hoffmann A. Stereotaxic atlas of the telencephalon of the weakly electric fish Gymnotus carapo. J Neurosci Methods 1998; 84: 93-100.
32. Maler L, Sas E, Johnston S, Ellis W. An atlas of the brain of the electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J Chem Neuroanat 1991: 4: 1-38.
33. A receptors of amigdala are involved in the modulation of dorsal immobility. Abstr Soc Neurosci 1996; 178.16 (Abstract).
34. Nicholson C. Diffusion from an injected volume of a substance in brain tissue with arbitrary volume fraction and tortuosity. Brain Res 1985; 333: 325-329.
35. Baffa O, Correa SL. Magnetic and electric characteristics of the electric fish Gymnotus carapo. Biophys J 1992; 63: 591-593.
36. Westby GWM. Further analysis of the individual discharge characteristics predicting social dominance in the electric fish Gymnotus carapo. Anim Behav 1975; 23: 249-260.
37. Ewert JP. Neural mechanisms of prey-catching and avoidance behavior in the toad (Bufo bufo L.). Brain Behav Evol 1970; 3: 36-56.