Developmental changes in electrophysiological properties of layer III pyramidal neurons in macaque visual cortices

The developmental changes of the sodium channel and construction of synapse connection were studied in cerebral cortical pyramidal neurons of rats at different age groups. We used whole-cell patch-clamp recordings to characterize electrophysiological properties of cortical neurons at different age stages, including the sodium currents, APs evoked by depolarizing current and short-term plasticity of the eEPSCs. The result shows that the sodium currents undergo a hyperpolarizing shift in activation process and acceleration of activation and inactivation with age. The maximal sodium current also increased with maturation, and the evident difference appeared from P7-P11 (with the day of birth as P0) to P12-P15 group. The tendency of the sodium current density changes which exhibited the same properties as that of sodium current, showed the significant increases from P19-P21 to P >or= 22 group. The APs' parameters exhibited the age-dependent changes except the threshold, including the increase of the peak amplitude from P or= 22 group, the 2nd response showed the tendency of facilitation compared with the younger age groups. Our results indicated that the cerebral cortical pyramidal neurons of rats are undergoing marked changes in the characteristics of their sodium channels with maturation, which play a critical role in synaptogenesis and construction of the neuronal network.

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Critical Roles of Voltage-Dependent Sodium Channels in the Process of Synaptogenesis During the Postnatal Cortical Development of Rats

Wang

Cui

Cai

et al. 2009

Cell Mol Neurobiol

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Developmental changes in electrophysiological properties of layer III pyramidal neurons in macaque visual cortices

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Critical Roles of Voltage-Dependent Sodium Channels in the Process of Synaptogenesis During the Postnatal Cortical Development of Rats

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