Climbing fiber

Climbing fiber

Microcircuitry of the cerebellum. Excitatory synapses are denoted by (+) and inhibitory synapses by (-). Climbing fiber is shown originating from the inferior olive (green).
Details
Location Inferior Olive and Cerebellum
Morphology Unique projection neuron (see text)
Function Unique excitatory function (see text)
Neurotransmitter Aspartate
Presynaptic connections Inferior olive
Postsynaptic connections Purkinje cells

Anatomical terminology

Climbing fibers are the name given to a series of neuronal projections from the inferior olivary nucleus located in the medulla oblongata.[1][2]

These axons pass through the pons and enter the cerebellum via the inferior cerebellar peduncle where they form synapses with the deep cerebellar nuclei and Purkinje cells. Each climbing fiber will form synapses with 1-10 Purkinje cells.

Early in development, Purkinje cells are innervated by multiple climbing fibers, but as the cerebellum matures, these inputs gradually become eliminated resulting in a single climbing fiber input per Purkinje cell.

These fibers provide very powerful, excitatory input to the cerebellum which results in the generation of complex spike excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) in Purkinje cells.[1] In this way climbing fibers (CFs) perform a central role in motor behaviors.[3]

The climbing fibers carry information from various sources such as the spinal cord, vestibular system, red nucleus, superior colliculus, reticular formation and sensory and motor cortices. Climbing fiber activation is thought to serve as a motor error signal sent to the cerebellum, and is an important signal for motor timing. In addition to the control and coordination of movements,[4] the climbing fiber afferent system contributes to sensory processing and cognitive tasks likely by encoding the timing of sensory input independently of attention or awareness .[5][6] [7]

In the central nervous system, these fibers are able to undergo remarkable regenerative modifications in response to injuries, being able to generate new branches by sprouting to innervate surrounding Purkinje cells if these lose their CF innervation.[8] This kind of injury-induced sprouting has been shown to need the growth associated protein GAP-43.[9][10][11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Harting, John K.; Helmrick, Kevin J. (1996,1997). "Cerebellum - Circuitry - Climbing Fibers". Retrieved 2008-12-25. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ Bear, Mark F.; Michael A. Paradiso; Barry W. Connors (2006). Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (Digitised online by Google Books). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 773. ISBN 978-0-7817-6003-4. Retrieved 2008-12-25. Image of Parallel fiber
  3. ↑ McKay, Bruce E.; Engbers, Jordan D. T., W. Hamish Mehaffey, Grant R. J. Gordon, Michael L. Molineux, Jaideep S. Bains, and Ray W. Turner; Mehaffey, WH; Gordon, GR; Molineux, ML; Bains, JS; Turner, RW (January 31, 2007). "Climbing Fiber Discharge Regulates Cerebellar Functions by Controlling the Intrinsic Characteristics of Purkinje Cell Output" (PDF). Journal of Neurophysiology (J Neurophysiol) 97 (4): 2590–604. doi:10.1152/jn.00627.2006. PMID 17267759. Retrieved 2008-12-25. line feed character in |first2= at position 76 (help)
  4. ↑ "Medical Neurosciences".
  5. ↑ Xu D, Liu T, Ashe J, Bushara KO. Role of the olivo-cerebellar system in timing" J Neurosci 2006; 26: 5990-5.
  6. ↑ Liu T, Xu D, Ashe J, Bushara K. Specificity of inferior olive response to stimulus timing. J Neurophysiol 2008; 100: 1557-61.
  7. ↑ Wu X, Ashe J, Bushara KO. Role of olivocerebellar system in timing without awareness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011.
  8. ↑ Carulli D, Buffo A, Strata P; Buffo; Strata (April 2004). "Reparative mechanisms in the cerebellar cortex". Prog Neurobiol 72 (6): 373–98. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2004.03.007. PMID 15177783.
  9. ↑ Grasselli G, Mandolesi G, Strata P, Cesare P; Mandolesi; Strata; Cesare (June 2011). "Impaired Sprouting and Axonal Atrophy in Cerebellar Climbing Fibres following In Vivo Silencing of the Growth-Associated Protein GAP-43". PLoS ONE 6 (6): e20791. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020791. PMC 3112224. PMID 21695168.
  10. ↑ Grasselli G, Strata P; Strata (February 2013). "Structural plasticity of climbing fibers and the growth-associated protein GAP-43". Front. Neural Circuits 7 (25): 25. doi:10.3389/fncir.2013.00025. PMC 3578352. PMID 23441024.
  11. ↑ Mascaro, Allegra; Cesare, P.; Sacconi, L.; Grasselli, G.; Mandolesi, G.; Maco, G.; Knott, G.W.; Huang, L.; De Paola, V.; et al. (2013). "In vivo single branch axotomyinduces GAP-43-dependent sprouting and synaptic remodeling in cerebellarcortex". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110 (26): 10824–10829. doi:10.1073/pnas.1219256110. PMID 23754371.

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