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Electrical and Morphological Properties of Developing Motoneurons in Postnatal Mice and Early Abnormalities in SOD1 Transgenic Mice

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Vertebrate Motoneurons

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In this chapter, we review electrical and morphological properties of lumbar motoneurons during postnatal development in wild-type (WT) and transgenic superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) mice, models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. First we showed that sensorimotor reflexes do not develop normally in transgenic SOD1G85R pups. Fictive locomotor activity recorded in in vitro whole brainstem/spinal cord preparations was not induced in these transgenic SOD1G85R mice using NMDA and 5HT in contrast to WT mice. Further, abnormal electrical properties were detected as early as the second postnatal week in lumbar motoneurons of SOD1 mice while they develop clinical symptoms several months after birth. We compared two different strains of mice (G85R and G93A) at the same postnatal period using intracellular recordings and patch clamp recordings of WT and SOD1 motoneurons. We defined three types of motoneurons according to their discharge firing pattern (transient, sustained and delayed onset firing) when motor units are not yet mature. The delayed-onset firing motoneurons had the higher rheobase compared to the transient and sustained firing groups in the WT mice. We demonstrated hypoexcitability in the delayed onset-firing motoneurons of SOD1 mice. Intracellular staining of motoneurons revealed dendritic overbranching in SOD1 lumbar motoneurons that was more pronounced in the sustained firing motoneurons. We suggested that motoneuronal hypoexcitability is an early pathological sign affecting a subset of lumbar motoneurons in the spinal cord of SOD1 mice.

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Durand, J., Filipchuk, A. (2022). Electrical and Morphological Properties of Developing Motoneurons in Postnatal Mice and Early Abnormalities in SOD1 Transgenic Mice. In: O'Donovan, M.J., Falgairolle, M. (eds) Vertebrate Motoneurons. Advances in Neurobiology, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07167-6_14

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