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Lab Meeting Oct 2 The fundamental operation of any neuron is to integrate synaptic inputs in order to decide when to fire an action potential How neurons integrate thousands of excitatory inputs in order to make this decision? Dendritic spines mediate most excitatory inputs in the brain. Passive cable theory predicts that “The somatic depolarization due to an excitatory synapse on a spine is a very sensitive function of the spine neck length and diameter” C. Koch and T. Poggio

- 1) Dendritic spine neck geometry: The Spine Neck and the Transmission of Membrane Potentials - 2) Role of Sodium Channels in Spine Uncaging Potentials - 3) The spatio-temporal integration of evoked-EPSP

4 s 4 ms Stimulation target = 100% laser intensity (25-30mW) Target = 0% laser intensity x Two-photon uncaging of MNI-glutamate at the level of the spine  m thick coronal slices of visual cortex (P14-20 mice) Loaded with Alexa488 - A custom-built two photon microscope was controlled by Vovan’s software Imaging and uncaging were performed at a wavelength of 725nm -Voltage deflections due to glutamate uncaging (uncaging potentials) in basal dendrites were recorded from the soma in whole cell current clamp

2-photon uncaging of MNI-glutamate allows the release of glutamate within a small focal volume so that activation of glutamate receptors is limited to a region within  1  m of the uncaging beam Evoked vs. Spontaneous EPSPs 1 mV 100 ms 1 mV 40 ms1 mV 40 ms n = 61 n = 56 Uncaging portantials from all spines vs spontaneous EPSPs 50 ms 1 mV

5  m Before After Stim 1  m away From spine head 2-photon uncaging of MNI-glutamate allows the release of glutamate within a small focal volume so that activation of glutamate receptors is limited to a region within  1  m of the uncaging beam

Short Neck Long Neck Is the somatic depolarization due to an excitatory synapse on a spine a very sensitive function of the spine neck length?

The somatic depolarization due to MNI-glutamte uncaging on a spine is a very sensitive function of the spine neck length.

Spine neck length, head diameter and spine distance from soma measurements Neck length from proximal edge of Sp head to edge dendrite or shortest orthogonal distance between the base of the spine head and the edge of the dendrite Sp head diameter longest possible axis at any of the frames in the z-stack of images Distance from soma For spines with no discernible necks (<0.25 µm) we arbitrarily chose a value of 0.2 µm.

A linear fit to the function gave a R of and a slope of  0.01 mV/µm p<0.001 The somatic depolarization due to MNI-glutamte uncaging on a spine is a very sensitive function of the spine neck length. Top and Bottom quartiles of the distribution

The effect of the spine neck is independent of spine position and head diameter

Analysis on the kinetics of the uncaging events R = 0.5; slope =  mVms/µm, p  0.001R = 0.3; slope =  18.2 ms/µm, p = R = 0.22; slope =  mVms/µm, p = 0.1

Calcium signals in spines 200  M Ca-green-1 Pointscan calcium signals were collected with a PMT

Long neck spines Short neck spines 1mV 100 ms Window smoothing filtration

Long-necked spines are activated by glutamate uncaging n = 5 (>1.5 µm neck length) Amplitude (mV) Long neck Short neck

Can this be explained only by passive properties of spines? Pharmacological blockade of Na channels High neck resistance could make possible the amplification of synaptic potentials at the spine head. Possible generation of Spine AP

VoVAn’s results Active properties of dendritic spines: Na channels

Spine TTX reduces the amplitude of spine uncaging potentials Control TTX Peak Amplitude (mV) Neck Length (  m) Neck length 0.8  m Neck length 1.1  m

Neck length (  m) Peak Amplitude (mV) % Reduction in Peak amplitude Neck length (  m) a b a)Peak amplitude vs neck length in 10 different spines before (black) and after (red) addition of TTX (1  m). b) Percentage reduction in the peak amplitude after addition of TTX in the spines showed in a.

A B A B Shaft TTX effect is restricted to spines These results suggest that sodium channels responsible for the amplification of spine uncaging potentials were located in the dendritic spine. Shaft Spine

0.2 mV -65 mV -90 mV 0.5 mV 100 ms 0.5 mV 100 ms - 65 mV - 80 mV Experimentally: Somatic hyperpolarization Modelling (Andy): The threshold should be demonstrable simply by hyperpolarizing / depolarizing the soma

- 1) Dendritic spine neck geometry: The Spine Neck and the Transmission of Membrane Potentials - 2) Role of Sodium Channels in Spine Uncaging Potentials - 3) The spatio-temporal integration of evoked-EPSP

How neurons integrate thousands of excitatory inputs in order to make this decision? Linear Summation Excitatory inputs: –Cash and Yuste 1998 and 1999 (Glutamate iontophoresis in CA1 pyramidal cells) Polsky et al., 2004 Neocortical slices Whole cell patch-clamp - layer 5 pyramidal cells Stimulation with theta patch pipette: Basal and Oblique dendrites. Problem: Other synapsis activated elsewhere in dendritic arbor by itinerant axons passing near stimulating electrodes

The spatio-temporal integration of uncaging potentials -pairs or triplets (total 26 spines 8 cells) -~  m away from soma -Two shaft locations (total 18 locations, 7 cells) -~  m away from soma

Uncaging potentials onto spines summed linearly whereas potentials on shafts summed sublinearly 50 ms 1 mV 2 mV Theoretical predictions: Integration in the shaft: Passive properties: Cable theory predicts that the influence of an input will vary with its LOCATION and will shunt each other if they are close (Rall and Rinzel, 1973). Integration in the spine: “The isolation of each spine synapse from others ending on the neurone would lead to very little Interaction between different excitatory inputs. This would result in nearly linear summation in the parent dendrite” (Jack)

Uncaging potentials onto spines summed linearly whereas potentials on shafts summed sublinearly At both small and large amplitudes inputs onto spines added linearly, but inputs onto shafts sublinearly spines: slope 0.97  0.01; shafts: slope 0.78  0.01; p<0.005, Mann-Whitney). Spines: slope 1.04  0.02; Shafts: slope 0.69  0.02; p<0.005, Mann-Whitney).

Future directions Do dendritic spines twitch? To see whether there is plasticity in the spine neck: Protocol 0 magnesium, 1Hz or 100Hz stim. Neck and voltage response -Myosin IIB (Sheng’s lab. Neuron) critical in spine morphology Integration in Up-states: Such depolarizations can cause a marked change in the subpopulation of spines which could produce SpineAP

JJ’s Results 500 µM FM 4-64 (Biotium Inc., Hayward CA) intracellularly via the patch pipette. SHG imaging was started when cells were stained with the dye for min after breaking in, and performed using a second custom-made two-photon laser scanning microscope {Nikolenko, 2003 #2384} with a Nd:glass laser at 1064 nm (IC-100, HighQ Laser). SHG signals were collected with a photomultiplier tube (Hamamatsu H7422P-40) after a narrow band-pass filter (530/20). Slow somatic DC voltage pulse (30-50 mV in amplitude, 5-25 s in duration) were delivered by the patch pipette in voltage clamp mode, while the SHG intensity of dendritic shaft and spines was collected at a frame rate of 1-5 s/frame and averaged online with Olympus FluoView. This voltage pulse presentation was repeated 5-10 times in order to calculate the SHG changes of the dendritic shaft and spine head. Spines were selected based on their signal to noise. There was no statistical correlation between the neck length and SHG baseline intensity (R=0.026, p=0.91), effectively ruling out potential artifacts due to systematic differences of chromophore diffusion into long spines.