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Abstract

The maturation and operation of neural networks are known to depend on modulatory neurons. However, whether similar mechanisms may control both adult and developmental plasticity remains poorly investigated. To examine this issue, we have used the lobster stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) to investigate the ontogeny and role of GABAergic modulatory neurons projecting to small pattern generating networks. Using immunocytochemistry, we found that modulatory input neurons to the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) express GABA only after metamorphosis, a time that coincides with the developmental switch from a single to multiple pattern generating networks within the STNS. We demonstrate that blocking GABA synthesis with 3-mercapto-propionic acid within the adult modulatory neurons results in the reconfiguration of the distinct STG networks into a single network that generates a unified embryonic-like motor pattern. Using dye-coupling experiments, we also found that gap-junctional coupling is greater in embryos and GABA-deprived adults exhibiting the unified motor pattern compared with control adults. Furthermore, GABA was found to diminish directly the extent and strength of electrical coupling within adult STG networks. Together, these observations suggest the acquisition of a GABAergic phenotype by modulatory neurons after metamorphosis may induce the reconfiguration of the single embryonic network into multiple adult networks by directly decreasing electrical coupling. The findings also suggest that adult neural networks retain the ability to express typical embryonic characteristics, indicating that network ontogeny can be reversed and that changes in electrical coupling during development may allow the segregation of multiple distinct functional networks from a single large embryonic network.

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Ducret, E., Le Feuvre, Y., Meyrand, P., & Fénelon, V. S. (2007). Removal of GABA within Adult Modulatory Systems Alters Electrical Coupling and Allows Expression of an Embryonic-Like Network. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(14), 3626–3638.

Authors 4
  1. Eric Ducret (first)
  2. Yves Le Feuvre (additional)
  3. Pierre Meyrand (additional)
  4. Valérie S. Fénelon (additional)
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@article{Ducret_2007, title={Removal of GABA within Adult Modulatory Systems Alters Electrical Coupling and Allows Expression of an Embryonic-Like Network}, volume={27}, ISSN={1529-2401}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4406-06.2007}, DOI={10.1523/jneurosci.4406-06.2007}, number={14}, journal={The Journal of Neuroscience}, publisher={Society for Neuroscience}, author={Ducret, Eric and Le Feuvre, Yves and Meyrand, Pierre and Fénelon, Valérie S.}, year={2007}, month=apr, pages={3626–3638} }