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Early diversity in the firing pattern of embryonic Renshaw cells: just a synergy between two opposite voltage-dependent currents

Boeri, J.; Meunier, C.; Le Corronc, H.; Branchereau, P.; Timofeeva, Y.; Lejeune, F.-X.; Mouffle, C.; Arulkandarajah, H.; Mangin, J. M.; Legendre, P.; Czarnecki, A.

2020-06-19 neuroscience
10.1101/2020.06.18.158931 bioRxiv
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Renshaw cells (V1R) are excitable as soon as they reach their final location next to the spinal motoneurons and are functionally heterogeneous. Using multiple experimental approaches, in combination with biophysical modeling and dynamical systems theory, we analyzed, for the first time, the mechanisms underlying the electrophysiological properties of V1R during early embryonic development of the spinal cord locomotor networks (E11.5-E16.5). We found that these interneurons are subdivided into several functional clusters from E11.5 and then display an unexpected transitory involution process during which they lose their ability to sustain tonic firing. We demonstrated that the essential factor controlling the diversity of the discharge pattern of embryonic V1R is the ratio of a persistent sodium conductance to a delayed rectifier potassium conductance. Taken together, our results reveal how a simple mechanism, based on the synergy of two voltage-dependent conductances that are ubiquitous in neurons, can produce functional diversity in V1R and control their early developmental trajectory.

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