Activity profiles of cholinergic and intermingled gabaergic and putative glutamatergic neurons in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum of urethane-anesthetized rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4664-4674

  Boucetta, Soufiane ^a   Jones, Barbara E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; NEUROBIOTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URETHAN; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SLEEP; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; TEGMENTUM; WALKING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; URETHANE;

EID: 65549134342     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5502-08.2009     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Amatruda TT 3rd, Black DA, McKenna TM, McCarley RW, Hobson JA (1975) Sleep cycle control and cholinergic mechanisms: Differential effects of carbachol injections at pontine brain stem sites. Brain Res 98:501-515.
2. Aston-Jones G, Bloom FE (1981) Activity of norepinephrine-containing locus coeruleus neurons in behaving rats anticipates fluctuations in the sleep-waking cycle. J Neurosci 1:876-886.
3. Brischoux F, Mainville L, Jones BE (2008) Muscarinic-2 and orexin-2 receptors on GABAergic and other neurons in the rat mesopontine tegmentum and their potential role in sleep-wake state control. J Comp Neurol 510:607-630.
4. Brown RE, McKenna JT, Winston S, Basheer R, Yanagawa Y, Thakkar MM, McCarley RW (2008) Characterization of GABAergic neurons in rapid-eye-movement sleep controlling regions of the brainstem reticular formation in GAD67-green fluorescent protein knock-in mice. Eur J Neurosci 27:352-363.
5. Clement EA, Richard A, Thwaites M, Ailon J, Peters S, Dickson CT (2008) Cyclic and sleep-like spontaneous alternations of brain state under ure-thane anaesthesia. PLoS ONE 3:e2004.
6. el Mansari M, Sakai K, Jouvet M (1989) Unitary characteristics of presumptive cholinergic tegmental neurons during the sleep-waking cycle in freely moving cats. Exp Brain Res 76:519-529.
7. Ford B, Holmes CJ, Mainville L, Jones BE (1995) GABAergic neurons in the rat pontomesencephalic tegmentum: Codistribution with cholinergic and other tegmental neurons projecting to the posterior lateral hypothalamus. J Comp Neurol 363:177-196.
8. Gillin JC, Sitaram N (1984) Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep: Cholinergic mechanisms. Psychol Med 14:501-506.
9. Hallanger AE, Levey AI, Lee HJ, Rye DB, Wainer BH (1987) The origins of cholinergic and other subcortical afferents to the thalamus in the rat. J Comp Neurol 262:105-124.
10. Henny P, Jones BE (2008) Projections from basal forebrain to prefrontal cortex comprise cholinergic, GABAergic and glutamatergic inputs to pyramidal cells or interneurons. Eur J Neurosci 27:654-670.
11. Jones BE (1990) Immunohisto chemical study of choline acetyl transferase-immunoreactive processes and cells innervating the pontomedullary reticular formation. J Comp Neurol 295:485-514.
12. Jones BE (1993) The organization of central cholinergic systems and their functional importance in sleep-waking states. Prog Brain Res 98:61-71.
13. Jones BE (2004) Paradoxical REM sleep promoting and permitting neuro-nal networks. Arch Ital Biol 142:379-396.
14. Jones BE, Cuello AC (1989) Afferents to the basal forebrain cholinergic cell area from pontomesencephalic - catecholamine, serotonin, and acetyl-choline-neurons. Neuroscience 31:37-61.
15. Jones BE, Yang TZ (1985) The efferent projections from the reticular formation and the locus coeruleus studied by anterograde and retrograde axonal transport in the rat. J Comp Neurol 242:56-92.
16. Kamondi A, Williams JA, Hutcheon B, Reiner PB (1992) Membrane properties of mesopontine cholinergic neurons studied with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique: Implications for behavioral state control. J Neurophysiol 68:1359-1372.
17. Karczmar AG, Longo VG, de Carolis AS (1970) A pharmacological model of paradoxical sleep: The role of cholinergic and monoamine systems. Physiol Behav 5:175-182.
18. Kayama Y, Ogawa T (1987) Electro Physiology of ascending, possibly cholinergic neurons in the rat laterodorsal tegmental nucleus: Comparison with monoamine neurons. Neurosci Lett 77:277-282.
19. Kayama Y, Ohta M, Jodo E (1992) Firing of 'possibly' cholinergic neurons in the rat laterodorsal tegmental nucleus during sleep and wakefulness. Brain Res 569:210-220.
20. Khateb A, Mühlethaler M, Alonso A, Serafin M, Mainville L, Jones BE (1992) Cholinergic nucleus basalis neurons display the capacity for rhythmic bursting activity mediated by low threshold calcium spikes. Neuroscience 51:489-494.
21. Koyama Y, Honda T, Kusakabe M, Kayama Y, Sugiuta Y (1998) In vivo Electro physiological distinction of histochemically identified cholinergic neurons using extracellular recording and labelling in rat laterodorsal tegmental nucleus. Neuroscience 83:1105-1112.
22. Lee MG, Hassani OK, Alonso A, Jones BE (2005) Cholinergic basal fore-brain neurons burst with theta during waking and paradoxical sleep. J Neurosci 25:4365-4369.
23. Leonard CS, Llinas RR (1990) Electro Physiology of mammalian peduncu-lopontine and laterodorsal tegmental neurons in vitro: Implications for the control of REM sleep. In: Brain cholinergic systems (Steriade M, Bie-sold D, eds), pp 205-223. New York: Oxford UP.
24. Maloney KJ, Cape EG, Gotman J, Jones BE (1997) High-frequency gamma electroencephalogram activity in association with sleep-wake states and spontaneous behaviors in the rat. Neuroscience 76:541-555.
25. Maloney KJ, Mainville L, Jones BE (1999) Differential c-Fos expression in cholinergic, monoaminergic and GABAergic cell groups of the pon-tomesencephalic tegmentum after paradoxical sleep deprivation and recovery. J Neurosci 19:3057-3072.
26. Manns ID, Alonso A, Jones BE (2000a) Discharge properties of juxtacellu-larly labeled and immunohisto chemically identified cholinergic basal forebrain neurons recorded in association with the electroencephalogram in anesthetized rats. J Neurosci 20:1505-1518.
27. Manns ID, Alonso A, Jones BE (2000b) Discharge profiles of juxtacellularly labeled and immunohisto chemically identified GABAergic basal fore-brain neurons recorded in association with the electroencephalogram in anesthetized rats. J Neurosci 20:9252-9263.
28. Manns ID, Alonso A, Jones BE (2003) Rhythmically discharging basal fore-brain units comprise cholinergic, GABAergic, and putative glutamatergic cells. J Neurophysiol 89:1057-1066.
29. McCormick DA (1992) Cellular mechanisms underlying cholinergic and noradrenergic modulation of neuronal firing mode in the cat and guinea pig dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus. J Neurosci 12:278-289.
30. McGinty DJ, Harper RM (1976) Dorsal raphe neurons: Depression of firing during sleep in cats. Brain Res 101:569-575.
31. Mena-Segovia J, Sims HM, Magill PJ, Bolam JP (2008) Cholinergic brain-stem neurons modulate cortical gamma activity during slow oscillations. J Physiol 586:2947-2960.
32. Mesulam MM, Mufson EJ, Wainer BH, Levey AI (1983) Central cholinergic pathways in the rat: An overview based on an alternative nomenclature (Chl-Ch6). Neuroscience 10:1185-1201.
33. Mitani A, Ito K, Hallanger AE, Wainer BH, Kataoka K, McCarley RW (1988) Cholinergic projections from the laterodorsal and pedunculopontine tegmental nuclei to the pontine gigantocellular tegmental field in the cat. Brain Res 451:397-402.
34. Paré D, Smith Y, Parent A, Steriade M (1988) Projections of brainstem core cholinergic and non-cholinergic neurons of cat to intralaminar and retic-ular thalamic nuclei. Neuroscience 25:69-86.
35. Pinault D (1996) A novel single-cell staining procedure performed in vivo under Electro physiological control: Morpho-functional features of juxtacellularly labeled thalamic cells and other central neurons with biocytin or Neurobiotin. J Neurosci Methods 65:113-136.
36. Pinault D (2008) N-methyl d-aspartate receptor antagonists ketamine and MK-801 induce wake-related aberrant gamma oscillations in the rat neo-cortex. Biol Psychiatry 63:730-735.
37. Rasmusson DD, Clow K, Szerb JC (1994) Modification of neocortical ace-tylcholine release and electroencephalogram desynchronization due to brainstem stimulation by drugs applied to the basal forebrain. Neuroscience 60:665-677.
38. Semba K, Reiner PB, Fibiger HC (1990) Single cholinergic mesopontine tegmental neurons project to both the pontine reticular formation and the thalamus in the rat. Neuroscience 38:643-654.
39. Steriade M (1993) Cholinergic blockage of network- and intrinsically generated slow oscillations promotes waking and REM sleep activity patterns in thalamic and cortical neurons. Prog Brain Res 98:345-355.
40. Steriade M (2004) Acetylcholine systems and rhythmic activities during the waking-sleep cycle. Prog Brain Res 145:179-196.
41. Steriade M, Datta S, Paré D, Oakson G, Curró Dossi RC (1990a) Neuronal activities in brain-stem cholinergic nuclei related to tonic activation processes in thalamocortical systems. J Neurosci 10:2541-2559.
42. Steriade M, Paré D, Datta S, Oakson G, Curró Dossi R (1990b) Different cellular types in mesopontine cholinergic nuclei related to ponto-geniculo-occipital waves. J Neurosci 10:2560-2579.
43. Takakusaki K, Shiroyama T, Kitai ST (1997) Two types of cholinergic neurons in the rat tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus: Electro physiological and morphological characterization. Neuroscience 79:1089-1109.
44. Timofeev I, Grenier F, Steriade M (1998) Spike-wave complexes and fast components of cortically generated seizures. IV. Paroxysmal fast runs in cortical and thalamic neurons. J Neurophysiol 80:1495-1513.
45. Wang HL, Morales M (2009) Pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei contain distinct populations of cholinergic, glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the rat. Eur J Neurosci 29:340-358.
46. Webster HH, Jones BE (1988) Neurotoxic lesions of the dorsolateral pon-tomesencephalic tegmentum-cholinergic cell area in the cat. II. Effects upon sleep-waking states. Brain Res 458:285-302.
47. Williams JA, Comisarow J, Day J, Fibiger HC, Reiner PB (1994) State-dependent release of acetylcholine in rat thalamus measured by in vivo microdialysis. J Neurosci 14:5236-5242.