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Optical measurement of physiological sodium currents in the axon initial segment

Luiza Filipis

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In most neurons of the mammalian central nervous system, the action potential (AP) is generated in the axon initial segment (AIS) by a fast Na+ current mediated by voltage-gated Na+ channels. While the axonal Na+ signal associated with the AP has been measured using fluorescent Na+ indicators, the insufficient resolution of these recordings did not allow resolving the Na+ current kinetics underlying this fundamental event. In this article, we report the first optical measurement of Na+ currents in the AIS of pyramidal neurons of the layer-5 of the somatosensory cortex from brain slices of the mouse. This measurement was obtained by achieving the temporal resolution of 100 µs in the Na+ imaging technique, with a pixel resolution of half a micron, and by calculating the time-derivative of the Na+ change corrected for lateral diffusion. We identified a subthreshold current before the AP, a fast-inactivating current peaking during the rise of the AP and a non-inactivating current during the AP repolarisation. We established a correlation between the kinetics of the non-inactivating current at different distances from the soma and the kinetics of the somatic AP. We quantitatively compared the experimentally measured Na+ current with the current obtained by computer simulation of published NEURON models demonstrating how the present approach can lead to the correct estimate of the native behaviour of Na+ channels. Finally, we discuss how the present approach can be used to investigate the physiological or pathological function of different channel types during AP initiation and propagation.
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hal-03109314 , version 1 (13-01-2021)

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Luiza Filipis, Marco Canepari. Optical measurement of physiological sodium currents in the axon initial segment. The Journal of Physiology, 2021, 599 (1), pp.49-66. ⟨10.1113/JP280554⟩. ⟨hal-03109314⟩

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