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J Neurophysiol 57: 1325-1337, 1987;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 57, Issue 5 1325-1337, Copyright © 1987 by APS

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Afterdepolarization mechanism in the in vitro, cesium-loaded, sympathetic preganglionic neuron of the cat

M. Yoshimura, C. Polosa and S. Nishi

Intracellular recordings were performed in Cs-loaded sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPNs) of the intermediolateral nucleus, identified by antidromic stimulation, in the slice of the T2 or T3 segment of the cat spinal cord. Loading the neurons with Cs resulted in broadening of the action potential, depression of the fast component of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP), and appearance of an afterdepolarization (ADP). A typical ADP in a Cs-loaded neuron had time to peak of 45-110 ms, half-decay time of 70-250 ms, and amplitude of 2-10 mV at membrane potentials between -60 and -70 mV and at a Ca and K concentration of 2.5 and 3.6 mM, respectively, in the superfusion medium. The ADP was associated with a decrease in neuron input resistance and increased in magnitude with hyperpolarization of the cell membrane. The relation between peak ADP amplitude and membrane potential was linear within the range of membrane potentials from -60 to -100 mV. The ADP was reversibly suppressed by the Ca-channel blocker cobalt (2 mM) or by low Ca Krebs solution (0.25 mM). Superfusion with BaCl2 (1.0 mM) or tetraethylammonium (TEA) (10-20 mM) caused an increase in amplitude of the ADP and an increase in action potential duration. Hyperpolarizing pulses, delivered during the course of the spike shoulder, resulted in a decrease of spike duration and ADP amplitude. The ADP was not affected by tetrodotoxin, at a dose blocking the Na-spike, and was enhanced, in association with an increase in action potential duration, when NaCl in the Krebs solution was replaced with choline chloride. Increasing intracellular Cl concentration or decreasing extracellular Cl concentration had no effect on the ADP. Changes in external K concentration from 3.6 to 10 or 0.36 mM increased and decreased, respectively, the amplitude of the ADP. In the absence of Cs, and ADP, with similar time course to that recorded in Cs-loaded SPNs, was recorded when CaCl2 was replaced by BaCl or NaCl was replaced by TEAC1. It is concluded that the SPN afterpotential includes a Ca-dependent inward current, in addition to the already described fast and slow outward K currents of the AHP.


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