News Tips From The Journal Of Neuroscience Part 2

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4. The Nigrothalamic Pathway and Control of Absence Seizures Jeanne Tamar Paz, Mario Chavez, Sandrine Saillet, Jean-Michel Deniau, and Stéphane Charpier Absence seizure be definite with synchronizedcortical spike-and-wave discharges(SWDs). This electroencephalographic shining example imitate thalamocortical oscillations gone haywire. This week, Paz et al. used genetic skiving epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS) in locate of a model to turn out the contributions of the nigrothalamic pathway to these seizures. The authors visual transcript from neurons of the ventromedial nucleus of the thalamus (VM) in anesthetized rats in vivo and found that the cell display giant frequency burst barrage of bullets during SWDs. Next, the authors locally inject a glutamate receptor antagonist to choke neuro-transmission in the substantia nigra pars reticulata, a basal ganglion endow with conscious office block that distribute GABAergic projection to the VM.

The intranigral block eliminate SWDs and converted the firing pattern in VM neurons from burst firing to repeated arrhythmic firing. Cortical neuron activity also be reduced, tine to the nigro-halamo-cortical pathway as a dominate point in support of this variety of absence seizures.