Excitation of Cerebellar Interneurons by Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors

• Published in: Journal of neurophysiology Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 1558 - 1565
• Main Authors: Karakossian, Movses H, Otis, Thomas S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Am Phys Soc 01.09.2004
• Subjects: Action Potentials - drug effects; Action Potentials - physiology; Animals; Benzoates - pharmacology; Cerebellum - drug effects; Cerebellum - physiology; Glycine - analogs & derivatives; Glycine - pharmacology; In Vitro Techniques; Interneurons - drug effects; Interneurons - physiology; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate - agonists; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate - antagonists & inhibitors; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate - physiology; Resorcinols - pharmacology

Department of Neurobiology, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90095-1763 Submitted 25 March 2004; accepted in final form 11 May 2004 Cerebellar basket and stellate neurons (BSNs) provide feed-forward inhibition to Purkinje neurons (PNs) and thereby play a principal rol...