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00:01 This is lecture nine of Neuroscience. we begin talking about neurotransmission. And

00:07 , we start talking about one of favorite of many of the people's neuroscience

00:12 neurochemistry favorite stories. It's Uncle Lowy discovered chemical neurotransmission. And Uncle Lowe

00:22 himself in this account in 1953 that 1921 the ow turned on the light

00:30 jotted down a few notes on the slip of paper. Then I fell

00:34 again. It occurred to me at o'clock in the morning that during the

00:37 I had written down something most but I was unable to decipher the

00:43 that Sunday was the most desperate day my whole scientific life during the next

00:48 . However, I awoke again at o'clock and I remembered what it was

00:53 time. I did not take any . I got up, immediately went

00:56 the laboratory made the experiment on the heart described above. And at five

01:03 , the chemical transmission of nervous impulse conclusively proved careful consideration in daytime,

01:10 have undoubtedly have re acted the kind experiment at the form because it would

01:15 seemed most unlikely that if a nervous released a transmitting agent that would do

01:21 , not just in sufficient quantity to detector organ in my case, the

01:27 , but indeed, in such an that it could partly escape into the

01:32 which filled the heart and could therefore detected. Yet, the whole nocturnal

01:37 of experiment was based on this eventuality the result proved to be positive contrary

01:44 expectation. So what experiment he what dream he had, he had

01:50 dream that he needed to go to lab. And he was already working

01:56 frog hearts and muscles. And there's nerve, the cranial nerve, 10

02:04 nerve. So later in this we will study the cranial nerves,

02:08 nerve very extensively runs out of the stem area and innervates a lot of

02:14 viscera, a lot of organs, also amongst those organs, the cardiac

02:19 or the heart. So when you the vagus nerve, the known effect

02:24 vagus nerve stimulation is that the heart will slow down, which is equivalent

02:32 reducing the number of contractions in the . So what he thought,

02:40 let me put this fluid and superfuse heart with physiological fluid. And while

02:48 doing that, I'm going to stimulate nerve, this vagus nerve projects on

02:55 the cardiac muscle. And as this runs through the heart, and I'm

03:01 the vagus nerve, I'm going to this fluid from the stimulated heart.

03:08 I'm going to collect it into a that is now attached to what you

03:13 call it a naive heart, meaning it has vagus nerve, but there's

03:18 stimulation here of vagus nerve. And can actually even sever vagus nerve off

03:23 it all completely all together. But this solution from the stimulated are dripped

03:30 this vessel, the contractions and the rate of this naive heart versus the

03:38 heart showed the same effect. It slowed down. And that was a

03:43 proof that when you stimulate vagus it releases something in the fluids that

03:50 bathing the stimulated or the donor And as he wrote, it was

03:56 enough of that fluid that chemical in fluid following the stimulation to now exert

04:03 same effect on the uns stimulated And it's a great story because one

04:12 my mentors who was a MD phd is neurosurgeon. He used to say

04:19 sleep is for the week and uh know, sleep is very important and

04:25 should sleep, have a really good cycle. But sometimes things need to

04:31 done and you just need to get in the middle of the night at

04:36 o'clock and go straight to the And the other cool thing about this

04:41 that his vision, he's so involved his work that he is dreaming the

04:50 . So that, that shows you the amount of dedication, not just

04:54 up at three o'clock, but the of dedication in his brain and his

05:00 life that he spends thinking about how prove or see how there is a

05:06 uh in this neurotransmission pathway. And chemical that he discovered, they called

05:13 the begu stuff, begu stuff begu in Germany. And it's acetylcholine,

05:20 turned out to be acetylcholine. So will say, wait a second,

05:25 , we talked about a Pseudy Colline the neuromuscular junction because we talked about

05:32 you have the motor neurons that project the skeletal muscles and they release

05:41 right. This is one of the that you learned about motor neurons versus

05:46 gaba interneurons. And in the skeletal , when we talked about the reflex

05:52 , we said that when the motor activates a muscle and releases the pseudocode

05:57 skeletal muscle contracts. But here it the opposite effect here in the cardiac

06:04 is not like skeletal muscle. You today, the skeletal muscle expresses only

06:10 subtype of a pseudo receptor and the expresses a different type of uh acetylcholine

06:18 . Uh and you'll learn that there's , I am atropic acetylcholine signaling and

06:25 metabotropic acetyl coal signaling that will have effects on the cellular physiology, membrane

06:33 as well as uh molecular physiology inside cell. Ok. So that's why

06:40 a very important story and that's why important to understand that the same

06:45 While it can cause contractions of the muscles, the same chemical can cause

06:52 contractions of the cardiac muscle. this clearly illustrates that the response of

07:02 cells or the types of the cells the types of the muscles does not

07:07 on the chemical that stimulates it, depends on the receptors to which that

07:13 bonds and that those receptors have distinct and sometimes opposing roles even stimulated by

07:19 same chemical. Most of the things we talk about and so far have

07:27 is we talked about how there are synopsis and then excitatory synopsis you'll have

07:35 chemical synopsis, you'll have release of a presyn ically that glutamate will bind

07:41 glutamate receptor channels. So, in first section of the course, we

07:47 we focused on voltage gated sodium channels voltage-gated potassium channels. And these are

07:55 receptor channels and so binding the glutamate cause influx of sodium which will cause

08:02 . This hyper polarization will come from fact that you'll learn in a couple

08:06 electrics that these channels are also permeable potassium monophysite direction, creating what we

08:12 excitatory poop potential or epsp. In to chemical transmission and chemical synopsis,

08:21 have also electrical synopsis. And it discovered, I believe in the sixties

08:27 if you have two electrodes and two cells and two distinct neurons and you

08:35 an action potential in cell. this action potential, this potential that

08:39 learned about which will be about 100 or so in amplitude immediately. Without

08:46 time delay. Without any time you see a very small electrical o

08:53 response that gets recorded in the second , which is only a fraction about

08:58 millivolt in size. But it's an replica of this action potential. And

09:04 important because if you release neurotransmitter. at this stage, here you release

09:14 . OK, you can call this the stimulus that neurotransmitter is going to

09:21 across the synaptic cleft. It's going bind to postsynaptic receptors here and then

09:30 membrane potential, sodium coming in the potential is going to change. And

09:36 there's going to be a delay from there was a stimulus which this would

09:40 an action potential arriving in the pre terminal. This is that stimulus right

09:47 . It's the same. OK. would be about 5 to 15 millisecond

09:54 . Here. In this delay, call synaptic delay and that synoptic delay

10:05 be observed. In chemical synopsis. takes time for the neurotransmitter to cross

10:10 space of 20 nanometers to bind to postsynaptic receptors to evoke this epsp response

10:18 we're looking at on the left But in electrical synopsis, there's no

10:26 . So if I put a dashed through here or if I held up

10:30 a yardstick, something like that, is not our steps is that thing

10:39 doesn't work. So if I held up here, you would see that

10:44 all occurs within about the same It might be a tiny little delay

10:50 not really. OK. So this in milliseconds. So it might be

10:54 fraction of millisecond delay, but it not be as in the chemical synopsis

11:00 5 to 15 mill uh milliseconds. SPS and IP sp. So ep

11:09 are exci possy tic potentials, they generated when glutamate binds to glutamate

11:16 In this case, channels that generate EPSD IP SPS are inhibitory fo synoptic

11:25 . They cause the hyper polarization. ep SPS are depolarizations. So EP

11:32 will try to drive the membrane potential its threshold value. If this is

11:39 resting membrane potential, the cell will receiving some very small EP SPS,

11:46 small IP sp, some stronger and EP SPS, very larger, maybe

11:54 SPS sometimes until it reaches this value the threshold for action potential. And

12:03 the EPSP is large enough to reach value, it will then subsequently generate

12:10 action potential and the EPSP are longer duration. So I should actually draw

12:16 a little bit differently. Once it here, it almost looks like a

12:21 line like that. And this is actual potential that we've learned about.

12:28 hyper polarization come when gamma gets we said now because it will

12:33 In this case, these are troop that we're talking about. In both

12:37 , they're called ionotropic receptor channels because the lien binds to this receptor,

12:43 channel conducts ions. So it's OK. So this is ionotropic glutamate

12:50 Gaba receptor and binding of Gaba to ionotropic Gabba A receptor will cause influx

12:57 fluoride and negative charge flexing inside the will cause hyper polarization in the form

13:04 IP SP. When we talk about neurotransmission, there's some very interesting things

13:12 we have to first place kind of a on a gross anatomical scale.

13:21 This is gonna be my cartoon of of the brain. Forgive me and

13:28 brain migraine. The major neurotransmitters here shown in different classes. You have

13:41 acids, you have amines, dopamine serotonin and you have peptides.

13:48 we already mentioned peptides. Remember we about cholic system CCK. We said

13:54 some of the parameter cells in the are CCK positive versus CCK negative.

13:59 also saw that you can have vesicles with neuropeptide vesicles co expressed in the

14:08 . So petal cells that release glutamate produce CCK and neuropeptide. It means

14:15 can co express glutamate and CCK and a release mechanism and recovery biosynthesis mechanism

14:24 glutamate and CCK. So now one that in which these systems differ,

14:34 is really important to understand from the beginning is that if we stain the

14:41 and this is just a very sparse , but if we stain the

14:48 And we asked this question, where glutamate expressed? Where are the cells

14:56 that express glutamate? The question where glutamate expressing themselves? And the answer

15:06 that it will be everywhere. You that you had them in, in

15:11 cord, you have them in the , you have them in the

15:17 you have them in different regions of brain. It's very broadly distributed.

15:22 there are billions of these glutamic And typically in cortical circuits, rhy

15:32 meic neurons account for about 80 to percent of the of the cells.

15:40 that sort of thing. What about , the major inhibitor neurotransmitter? Is

15:47 the same case? Yeah. So you ask the question, where is

15:53 expressed? And you do a stain inhibitory gaba producing neurons, let's say

16:01 is called G but there aren't as of the inhibitory cells and most of

16:06 special cortical circuits in the cortical you have about 10 to 20%.

16:14 we're talking about the cortex here and cortex, you have 10 to 20%

16:21 the inhibitory GVA producing cells versus excited glutamate, producing and so on.

16:29 their expression amino acid expression is wide different parts of the brain and different

16:39 when it's billions of cells in the disproportion, especially when it concerns the

16:46 . The cerebral cortex. What about means it means the same way.

16:51 if you ask the same question where acetylcholine producing neurons located? And you

17:00 the brain just like you took the brain there as they drew and they

17:05 it throughout. And you saw gag all over the answer would be

17:12 the cells that synthesize and produce acetylcholine confined to what we call these

17:21 which are collections of cells responsible for same very similar functions on me that

17:27 to complex basal nucleus of main art medial septal nuclei. And that's

17:37 So these are very small nucleon in brain that are responsible for producing all

17:44 the acetylcholine. That's all of the acetylcholine has. And we, when

17:50 talk about the means we talk about and even in your class notes and

17:57 , it's called diffuse modulatory systems. you'll understand what modulatory means to the

18:05 of the second lecture and diffuses the is that these nuclei will have axons

18:13 project very diffusely and it's very difficult delineate their precise synoptic endings and

18:22 but sometimes they're referred to as the systems. So we sort of like

18:27 , almost like para crime, like . And then of course, the

18:32 to these neurotransmitters like acetylcholine will be on the type of the receptors that

18:37 binds in different areas of the And so now we have these nuclei

18:45 project into, you know, the and into the spinal cords of cortically

18:51 thalamus and cortical all throughout the Uh But there are far and few

19:00 between compared to the excitatory gabba who make the film. So in some

19:06 , there is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of those neurons.

19:12 the question is if you a blade if you surgically remove this nucleus,

19:19 and this nucleus, does that mean is no acetyl toin in the

19:25 And the answer is yes, there's sign. So it's very kind of

19:30 select number. If you may, special, there's a few of

19:35 they project very broadly. And if look at other means, this is

19:39 dopamine system. You have me tal and substantial migraine that will be providing

19:45 to the brain here at these two equally so that there is significant damage

19:50 this part of the brain to substantial and BT A. You will compromise

19:56 dopamine system. Yeah. Is it acetylcholine or very low acetylcholine in the

20:04 ? It, it, it's um a small number of cells. So

20:10 to the amount and metabolism of glutamate gaba, obviously, yes,

20:16 accordingly, you have so many more processing amino acids, it's gonna be

20:22 of the uh metabolic turnover and uh lesser amount of those molecules.

20:31 What does CCTD? I mean for CTX cortex? That's an abbreviation for

20:40 . Sorry. Um Use my bad anatomy habits. I should put CCK

20:47 to him and ask you what is ? What is CTX? So,

20:50 know, this is all beli you Gaba, you know, we'll be

20:54 around saying G A Gaba, everybody is gonna be either G or

21:00 an ND A or am a, know, like you play Tetris

21:06 That's interesting. It's like this ancient , computer game. It's like things

21:13 and you have to stack them Then you start seeing like stacking

21:18 start seeing the neurotransmitters and thinking who more like dopamine, who is more

21:24 serotonin? And that's important thing to about because when we talk, for

21:32 , at the very beginning about different disorders, I asked you to know

21:37 disorders. Um dopamine uh disorders are disorders such as Parkinson's disease. And

21:45 because there's significant dopamine input into the here that is involved in initiation and

21:55 of some of the motor commands that recall of some of the complex motor

22:01 that then get sent to the motor . They have this acetylcholine system.

22:12 have this dopamine system, you have serotonin system have rapha nuclei that supplies

22:20 to the whole brain and norepinephrine So this is just to give you

22:24 general understanding of these different systems and expression where they are, how limited

22:32 are compared to amino AIS. And start forming this uh view that maybe

22:40 and gabble can be viewed as a and off switch. So G's excitation

22:46 to fire actions, glutamate is excitation fire action potentials. Glo's inhibition inhibit

22:55 cell activity. But then these what we call these dopamine. Uh

23:03 I mean, like uh modulators, can imagine they add a lot of

23:08 . So some of them will be necessarily turning on and off the light

23:13 maybe just dimming part of the lights the room. Ok. And that's

23:19 it's modulation. So it's not all on all off, but it's a

23:23 amount of light and different amount of in different parts of the classroom with

23:29 parts of the brain as they projected different parts of the brain. All

23:36 . So gab junctions are the electrical and you can see where two cells

23:42 you have an image uh of two and you see they've come very close

23:48 and almost fused together. There's actually small distance of about 3.5, 4

23:54 . And this would be what a junction is electrical get junction. The

24:00 that they are formed is that you a connection channel and each neuron.

24:08 this is neuron. One usually the is about 20 nanometers for the chemical

24:14 . But here the membranes can close in physical space about 3.5 nanometers apart

24:21 each other and one side of one will contain a Kaon and

24:28 Two will also contain an Exxon and connections are comprised of six connect

24:36 So the sub units are connect six of them make a connect

24:42 And when two connect songs come they form a gob junction or an

24:49 junction. So we call, we refer to neurons that have gab junctions

24:56 electrically coupled. And that's because ions flow from one cell into the other

25:03 through these gap junctions to a certain , uh they can flow in both

25:10 . So what we learned, for , about voltage gated sodium channels versus

25:14 and sodium was influx and potassium was in here is movement from one cell

25:21 the other and vice versa. Apart uh fluxes of ions in both

25:30 those gap junctions also allow for the of small molecules such as secondary messengers

25:36 as cycle MP. And that's So it's not just a source of

25:41 conductance of ions, but it's also a way for cells to exchange certain

25:50 . Uh they are always open. they're not gated by voltage, they're

25:56 gated by livens, they are always except sometimes they're open more and sometimes

26:02 open less. But for the most , they're always open. The way

26:07 think that they open more or less that there might be a little bit

26:12 a torque that gets put on the sides. And with that torque,

26:17 opening narrows a little bit. So less open and sometimes they go into

26:21 position where the opening is basically juxtaposed without the torque and allow for more

26:29 of violence on small substances. It's fast transmission. I already told you

26:34 there is no delay and neurons are fast. You have to integrate P

26:42 , excitatory personality potentials and inhibitory IP occurring simultaneously at the same time.

26:51 these gap junctions can allow for very neurotransmission can mediate very fast neurotransmission.

27:00 if it's only a fraction of that potential as we saw 100 millivolts on

27:04 side. One millivolt on here that still a significant of depolarization sometimes in

27:12 , which allows for these gap junctions synchronize neuronal networks. So these neuronal

27:20 , these two cells are sitting in neural network that is receiving the same

27:25 . This is cell one on top this is cell two and these two

27:29 are interconnected through the gap junctions What will be observed is that those

27:36 almost all of the time will fire controls at exactly the same time,

27:43 all of them. And that means they're synchronized, that their activity is

27:49 . And if you remove gap junctions these two cells number three and

27:56 but you're still putting the same stimulus the neural network onto the circuit where

28:03 two cells are located, those two will fire action potentials. But those

28:09 potential shells will be what we call of sync, it will occur at

28:14 time points. So you will lose synchrony. And that's important because quite

28:22 in order for neural circuits to be , large populations of neurons need to

28:28 synchronized. And they some of the , some of the activities that we

28:32 in the brain are very fast in order of 100 plus cycles per

28:38 And G allow neurons to use the between the cells to have these neurons

28:47 and fire at the same time so they can make more impact on neurons

28:52 . Now, with gaps, do have uh always have the same dialect

28:58 do different categories of neurons have That's a good point uh to different

29:05 of neurons will express gab junctions. here we're talking about neurons but gab

29:11 are also present in gluteal cells. a very good point. And uh

29:16 we look at the dialects, we stimulate individual cells, we don't stimulate

29:22 networks while the interconnectivity of these different cells and the objections may affect how

29:30 whole network activity happens. So, right, chemical synopsis are everywhere on

29:38 but mostly on dendrites and mostly on . So if there are dendrites that

29:44 oxo, if they're so are a already uh discussed. And I think

29:50 is another example of where you can a pre synaptic active zone here loaded

29:55 vesicles and then another presynaptic active zone loaded with synaptic vesicles that will store

30:02 such as amino acids and the means also down score vesicles. Also what

30:08 call them. A you lies a or Granules and those secret or Granules

30:13 contain neuropeptides. So again, a cell can pop neuropeptide and an amino

30:21 and can co express it and core it. There will be different rules

30:25 the synthesis of this molecules and release we'll discuss a little bit later.

30:30 , all of the uh axons that onto the cmos and onto the dendrites

30:37 play into the integrated properties of the that they're targeting. In other

30:42 they will influence whether the target cell find action potential or not. Because

30:48 it is a very strong excitatory input there's hundreds of them close to the

30:53 , then the cell will integrate the information and we'll fire the action

30:58 We'll have a lot of ep depolarizations of fire action potentials. If

31:04 on the SOMA, it's the same , also quite a lot of

31:08 So it will influence how the cell respond to all of the inputs,

31:14 the cell will integrate that information. the cell will have to integrate excitatory

31:20 inhibitor information, excitatory and inhibitory In this situation, you have ason

31:29 and that's a little bit different because these axons will help the cell or

31:38 influence the cell, whether it's going fire an action potential or not.

31:45 , the C has made that decision by other inputs on dendrites. And

31:52 this guy here is conflicting its axon it can no longer this this axonic

31:59 , it doesn't influence integrate properties of cells. It just modulates the

32:06 So if it's an inhibitor neuron onto action potentials, maybe there's a train

32:12 10 action potentials and this inhibitor neuron this excitatory Axion will reduce that number

32:19 10 action potentials by inhibiting to let's seven action potentials that will finally be

32:25 to break through and arrive at the terminal. And so there's a modulatory

32:32 . So it really controls the output the integrated properties, how it's being

32:38 by the cell uh by accumulation and of all of the exci inhibitory

32:43 Then you also have dendrodendritic synopsis. like wait a second, that's the

32:49 , sir and uh axon terminal. for the most part, that's what

32:53 study. There are always exceptions to rules and these are rare, but

32:57 are dendrodendritic Synopsis uh that can be in the as well. Some of

33:04 synopsis, if you visualize them, will be a symmetrical, that means

33:08 they will contain pretty narrow, pretty , spatially presynaptic active zones and pretty

33:16 p synaptic densities and they'll also contain rounded vesicles. And there are other

33:24 that if you visualize them you will that there are flattened vesicles and that

33:30 both sides, the presynaptic and the synoptic sides are symmetrical, refer to

33:37 as symmetrical differentiations, membrane differentiations. are about equal sides. So one

33:43 these sy synopsis is inside to one them is inhibitory and you'll have to

33:49 it out as your whole impression. , you also see that there are

33:54 sizes of synopsis and different numbers within individual axon. So this is a

34:00 classical axon onto dendritic spine. That's we study most of the time.

34:06 . And then you have the cell , but you can also have axons

34:09 bifurcate around five, they split basically two endings. So we'll have two

34:16 terminals and one of them may be large and they have three active zones

34:21 exposed to three posy densities and one them may be small. So there's

34:26 , some of them will wrap So this is axon wrapping around.

34:30 axon will have 123456789, 10 re terminals. 10 synopsis essentially around this

34:42 that form. And then other you'll have six or seven, some

34:48 them will have three release sides, will have one release sides. So

34:53 vary in size and in shape and size and the shape and the number

34:59 contacts that it makes in the but which it communicates is important.

35:04 important to synaptic plasticity. So the is the synoptic communication is the larger

35:10 the synapse. The more of the synaptic contacts it can be making and

35:17 released more of the release zones and neurons that don't communicate with each other

35:22 well during early development. And even adulthood, uh they don't sync up

35:29 activity and their synopsis may become smaller small release sites and sometimes may be

35:36 driven away. Not just the dendritic . We learned about dendritic spine pruning

35:41 early development, but also the axons innervate those dendritic spines equally.

35:48 during synaptogenesis and during the upkeep of synaptic plasticity in in adults, and

35:56 do have uh neurogenesis and synaptogenesis in brains. We just don't have as

36:02 of the stem cells in adult brains we have when we are newborns.

36:10 we're much more stemming when we're born the older we grow, the less

36:16 we get. Uh and I will in the semester, I will post

36:22 TED talks for everyone to have in kind of a cachet neuroscience, TED

36:28 , cachet. And one of those will be uh you can grow new

36:33 cells in adults. And uh the tells you how to do that.

36:40 there are certain activities and certain elements actually promote a healthy state of the

36:46 cells in the brain and certain activities certain habits that decrease the availability of

36:52 stem cells uh and, and aging or imbalanced uh uh uh imbalanced

37:03 brains of human. So we also about the dendritic spines. We

37:08 oh, they have the spine apparatus have mitochondria right next to the

37:13 So you need energy for this postsynaptic . We also said that they have

37:19 complexes in the postsynaptic dendritic spines. we said that that makes them somewhat

37:27 and biochemically independent from at least the . They don't have to communicate through

37:31 SOMA of the cell. Uh The thing to notice is that you have

37:36 presynaptic neuron with neurotransmitter vesicles, you the pos synaptic density here and in

37:45 or what color is the cyan actually cyan color wrapped around the synapse,

37:51 have glial cell. And so that's we refer to neuronal signaling uh as

37:59 tripartite synapse where neuron, one is part, neuron two is the second

38:07 and neuron glia is the third sorry neuron, one, neuron two

38:13 glia is the third part. And it's tripartite synapse and they'll say,

38:19 , is it just insulation? In case, we're talking about Astros?

38:25 you will notice uh as you learn the next two lectures, I ostracizes

38:31 the amount of glutamate and the amount gaba that is available for signaling between

38:38 two neurons. So it's very much involved in metabolic control of the major

38:46 or inhibitory neurotransmitters in the brain. If you recall from the very early

38:54 of uh Ramona Cajal with Golgi Ramona Cajal was able to reveal the

39:02 already. However, as the microscopes more and more with greater and

39:10 better, better with greater and greater resolution, we could see more and

39:15 of the dendritic spines. When we to electron microscopy, we could really

39:20 the three dimensional structures of these But in the early days, the

39:27 or electron microscopy imaging was just done two dimensions. And this is another

39:34 of type of discovery in your book The Love of dendritic spines that describes

39:39 by Doctor Kristen Harris who not only but was extremely persistent and just probably

39:49 Otto Lowy dreaming the dendritic spines at and rushing into the bob that she

39:56 a part of the era that ushered understanding of the three dimensional structures of

40:03 and deri spines, not just on external morphology, but also what is

40:11 composition of these dendrites and dendritic So what you can do in a

40:19 dimensional electron microscopy is you can use tags or stains uh or markers,

40:28 example, for cyto skeletal elements versus markers that specifically label postsynaptic densities in

40:38 lytic spines. And now, instead just having a simple two dimensional way

40:45 describing Ridic spines and saying, remember we talked how important the shape

40:50 the number and the densities are uh spines during early development. And we

40:56 about this disease of Fragile X which is uh intellectual uh recordation and

41:05 uh in the in in impairments. what we see now is that it's

41:12 just external shape of these spines. important when we spoke about the cyto

41:18 elements. We said, well, a second, the cytoskeleton elements support

41:21 shape of the spots. And we that they can polymerize into longer chains

41:26 depolymerize. And that means that if understand the structure, the internal structure

41:33 how that shapes the outside boundaries of synopsis and dendritic spines in three

41:41 inside and out, you have gained lot more knowledge on how these independent

41:48 units function and what is the actual ? So the skeletal support structure in

41:53 finds overlaid with other elements that indicate um profiles uh of and spatial maps

42:06 the cells. So, neurotransmitter, transmission principles of chemical transmission, you

42:15 to have neurotransmitter synthesized, you have load this neurotransmitter into the vesicles.

42:21 vesicles have to fuse with the possible neuro transmitter has to be released,

42:27 released into the synoptic clu. It to be bind to the phos

42:32 Once it binds to the phos there has to be a biochemical or

42:38 electrical is an EP SP. When talk about metabotropic transmission, we'll talk

42:43 bio chemical response. And as far secondary messengers, uh porl depos

42:49 What happens inside the cell. And finally, these uh uh neurotransmitters.

42:56 when we talk about glutamate or they are agonists because they open glutamate

43:04 glutamate receptor channels. So the we already talked about agonist and antagonist

43:10 they bind to glutamate receptor channels. later, we'll talk about acetylcholine receptor

43:16 . Once they bind to glutamate receptor , they don't stay there forever.

43:22 bind to the channels. Remember we about um uh how in voltage gated

43:29 channels. Once you had a confirmational of opening the channel. Following that

43:34 change, there was also an activation that channel. So things are tied

43:38 . So once you initiate a confirmational with this Ln binding site,

43:44 eventually, with some time these molecules , they don't form covalent bonds.

43:52 they dissociate from the protein receptors and either get broken down in the synoptic

44:01 class here or they get r are back and transported back into the three

44:07 termin. So they don't bind to receptors and, and, and stay

44:12 for us. So they are, reversible, they can bind and un

44:18 and they can get cleared out of synapse. And in contrast to some

44:23 the substances that can irreversibly bind um receptor channels. OK. So let's

44:32 back a little bit since I see Colline was discovered by OTA Lowy.

44:40 uh this is what Luigi Galvani also uh releasing when he was stimulating the

44:46 , nerves and frogs, uh nerves onto the muscles. So to the

44:51 muscles in the frog at that he just didn't know it was acetyl

44:56 um that was discovered a couple of years later. But we go back

45:03 talk about neuromuscular junction in this case cyto skele uh skeletal muscle and the

45:11 that acetylcholine and the differences between action and also the po synoptic responses that

45:19 will see at the neuromuscular junctions versus central nervous system. Synopsis and some

45:25 the properties of these different potentials. let's go back to our reflex arch

45:30 we started early on. We started about reflex arch and we said that

45:36 neurons they projected to skeletal muscle. , let's zoom in on to these

45:41 of the skep muscles and the uh endings. We refer to it as

45:47 end plate. Uh uh right here the postsynaptic regions and the pore

45:53 you have axons that will ramify into different endings. And if you zoom

46:00 on to one of these endings, of these synopsis, one of these

46:05 will be targeting a certain nerve fibers and it's a very reliable synapse.

46:11 soon as there's going to be release acetylcholine, there's going to be a

46:16 on the muscle fiber or broadly on whole muscle, which is contraction of

46:22 muscle. So what happens is motor action potential is actually as short as

46:31 direction, as short as the action that we discussed in the first

46:36 So approximately two milliseconds in duration. it's really, really fast. So

46:42 what happens at the presynaptic terminal. action potential arrives in the presynaptic terminal

46:49 it causes the fusion of the vesicle the vesicle will open up, release

46:55 acetylcholine content. And po synoptic two molecules will bind to one receptor.

47:06 You have about 200 synaptic vesicles that be stacked here. And once the

47:14 is released, it will bind to postsynaptic receptors. And these are nicotinic

47:22 receptors. So we only have nicotinic receptors in the skeletal muscles.

47:33 abbreviated as N ACH R nicotinic acetylcholine . And they're located within these junctional

47:47 in the muscle, but they're located close to the presynaptic terminals within these

47:54 halls. And as soon as there a release of acetylcholine po synaptic.

48:01 is this massive depolarization that we call end plate potential. This is the

48:07 endplate zone that causes a change of millivolts of greater. And that's significant

48:15 if you recall, you just talked these post synoptic potentials, the EP

48:27 and I PSPs. And I said of them can be really tiny,

48:34 will be a few millivolts in size only if they're really large that will

48:40 the threshold and generate an action But that is a huge contrast to

48:47 we see at neuromuscular junction, you very large amount of neurotransmitter release,

48:53 release and you always have a massive that is caused by a pseudy

49:02 So when acetylcholine molecules, when acetylcholine , two of them and bind to

49:14 receptor and the nicotinic receptor, two these molecules will bound up and sodium

49:23 going to flux inside the cell. right. And then you will

49:29 OK, well, where does this comes from? So I understand.

49:33 you're going inside and depolarizing. How it depolarize? So these Ln gated

49:39 will also be permeable to potassium rolled and that's how we polarization will

49:46 So first sodium will rush in through receptor channels and then potassium will come

49:52 through ach receptor channels. And it always cause this massive depolarization in the

50:01 of lay potential that is always sufficient cross the threshold for action potential.

50:07 therefore will always result, as I in the switch of the muscle fiber

50:11 contraction of the muscle, the skeletal contraction. And how does this action

50:17 happen? This is the lay So, what we're looking at here

50:22 not the action potential, it's pos lay potential. This is epsb excitatory

50:31 potentials. This is an excitatory or plate potential. BPP. So how

50:37 the action potential happen? Right, so far we talked about this release

50:43 acetylcholine, advanced the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors the depolarization through nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

50:54 this is nicotinic causes depolarization and deeper the junctional falls. You have voltage

51:04 sodium voltage gated potassium channels as well uh calcium channels that will be opened

51:13 do to this massive end play So a lot of times we refer

51:21 it as a high fidelity neuromuscular junction a high fidelity synapse. 1 to

51:26 , meaning that if there is an potential, pre synoptic post synaptic,

51:31 will see a massive Epp that will cause a contraction will always form an

51:37 potential always fall uh cause a contraction the muscle. And now if you

51:42 at the different sizes or duration, the skeletal muscle will be about five

51:48 in duration of the same amplitude and cardiac ventricle contraction will be much

51:57 uh 200 milliseconds in duration and it a different shape to it. And

52:05 , this hump these different shapes or hump in the cardiac uh ventricle uh

52:12 because of the calcium channels being That's something that we don't see in

52:17 neurons, we don't engage voltage gated channels in the actual potential in in

52:23 that we've discussed so far in motor . So, uh we had an

52:29 discussion on the a class. Somebody , well, why is the,

52:35 is the heart uh contraction is so ? So, well, maybe there's

52:43 know we had a discussion and now I check the sources. So

52:50 continue the discussion. You can check sources. But one of the suggestions

52:54 that, you know, neurons don't all the time. So if you

53:00 have an electrode in the neuron, patch clamp whole cell recording in the

53:06 , we'll fire a few action potentials a minute. Uh Unless it's being

53:13 repeatedly, then it will fire as action potentials as can fire. But

53:19 just linger, linger boom, just we saw in those traces, even

53:23 the with the constant input into network don't always respond with continuous trains of

53:29 potentials. So, um but the doesn't stop. So maybe it has

53:38 do with how many you have how many contractions over your lifetime you

53:44 to have to generate. So that one of the points of the

53:48 And then I made everybody kind of about, well, what about the

53:55 ? What happens? So when you action potential, motor neuron releases

54:01 you have the skeletal muscle causes These have to be really fast,

54:07 ? What is the heart muscle It pumps the fluids. So it's

54:14 now dependent and the speed of that is dependent on the fact that it

54:21 to move something uh like a fluid a chamber like, you know,

54:29 you have a good idea. I it was slower because there's two,

54:35 , like, you know how like the spinal fluid in the somatic

54:38 like, it goes directly to the muscle. But in that part of

54:41 , it's like there's two, you what I mean? There's two

54:45 like there's a separation because free, the somatic doesn't have that separation.

54:52 mean, uh norepinephrine versus acetylcholine There's like, there's like two different

54:59 vers versus parasympathetic or? Well, , but like in the autonomic

55:03 right, there's two, there's two neurons but the somatic just was directly

55:11 . Well, cho because you have pacemaker now and it's really just following

55:15 pacemaker. Um the heart itself, heart, the heart moves on its

55:21 , right? If you, if take the heart out, what does

55:24 do? You provide it with the solution? It will keep, keep

55:30 . So it's not really about the input it's more about and we

55:35 , it's a pacemaker, right? it always boo boo boo boo boo

55:40 boo boom. And you don't have like stimulate it like you do if

55:45 have problems and then you have a pacemaker, it's sort of in your

55:49 . So maybe I'm not catching your, you know, your

55:54 Yeah. Is it only one V looks like that or are they both

56:00 uh if you record it from the ? Yeah, you mean identical in

56:06 and size? I haven't, I know I actually don't have a very

56:09 comparison to the, yeah, uh, American pulsar, cardiac ventricle

56:16 too fast. There wouldn't be like room for error between the

56:21 between the two chambers because of the of the flow of the fluid.

56:28 it would, it would stimulate it quickly. Like it wouldn't be able

56:32 get any fluid, which is a one and they start to overlap.

56:37 , that's fine. So we're, , we have all of these different

56:43 , but I, I just searched up. So I was thinking about

56:46 preganglionic neuron on the gang one. that's like not in the somatic

56:51 That's why, like I've always that's why it's slow for cardiac,

56:56 it also doesn't have to pump the that's between the chamber. So it's

57:01 at least three reasons maybe or If you search more, you'll probably

57:08 more. But anyway, it's very discussion. Uh And the point of

57:13 is neurons are the fastest and we really fast brains and a little bit

57:19 muscles, um uh action potentials and in the brain it's even uh in

57:26 , in the, in the it's even the slowest. All

57:30 there's quite a few slides that we to cover. And we already started

57:34 about these different chemicals and these different and we'll continue talking about them.

57:40 want you to look at their So, glutamate versus Gama, I

57:44 want you to look at the singularity glutamate and gamma. It's almost the

57:50 molecule. It's just that glutamate is it has this carboxyl group and it

57:58 decarboxylate and becomes gabba. And you understand that these astrocytes that are surrounding

58:09 cells and this tripartite synapse, they also have their transporters for glutamate and

58:17 . So it's not only the neurons are going to return that substance back

58:21 the pre synoptic terminal glutamate. And is also gonna get slurped up by

58:28 and it's gonna get given back to and gabba producing sauce and we'll learn

58:34 this in the next couple of Uh Glycine you can see is

58:40 Some of these are 123412345 carbon dopamine, uh norepinephrine or acetylcholine is

58:55 that have much longer carbon chains. you look at these peptides, they're

59:00 large molecules. Uh and uh they obviously carbons, hydrogens and oxygens and

59:15 nitrogen and you have a lot of nitrogen and also sulfur in the in

59:23 peptides. So when we talk about neurotransmitters, the traditional neurotransmitters, we

59:30 about amino acids, amines, we talk about peptides that are stored in

59:36 or Granules. So, peptides are from the neurotransmitter vesicles. This is

59:42 example of where neurotransmitter vesicles are shown much uh spatially confined to the synoptic

59:50 here and most of its refilling exocytosis , endocytosis reuptake, refilling will be

59:59 place with the synoptic terminal here and action potential, an influx of calcium

60:06 enough to cause a fusion of the and the neurotransmitter release in the papic

60:13 . But the neuropeptides are stored in Granules and typically one action potential or

60:20 stimulus, sparse activity in these neurons not enough to release neuropeptides, neuropeptides

60:28 synthesized neo selma. Of course, peptide goes through the g goop forus

60:35 it becomes filled with the secret Granules the peptide neuros liters right here from

60:43 golgi. So it's not at the of the synapse and then they actually

60:48 produced or synthesized and released when there heightened levels activity. If there's very

60:54 stimulus, continuous repetitive stimulus, that is very active, multiple action

61:00 it will start releasing secretory Granules and . We saw that they can be

61:05 localized in external terminals. But the interesting thing is that in high levels

61:10 activity, these secretory gran animals can fuse along the extent of the axon

61:16 they reach the external terminal. So isn't as much of the spatial specificity

61:22 the signaling from the secret to And therefore, these are the differences

61:27 synaptic vesicles are. Uh although you see they can co localize here with

61:33 core vesicles are also secret Granules dense core secret Granules. You cannot

61:40 they have like a dense core, core of it is dense.

61:44 And this is vesicles that the synoptic and these are neuropeptides that require a

61:50 more activation, sustained levels of activity can get released along the external

61:58 not just uh uh uh along the extent, not just in the

62:03 So we have all of these molecules we'll be discussing. We'll also be

62:08 about some of the molecules like a and A TP. And that's important

62:15 we talked about a TP as a energy source in the brain and the

62:20 produced by mitochondria. But A TP also a neurotransmitter. A TP combined

62:28 glee ourselves on receptors that are called 22 Y receptors. So it's also

62:34 neurotransmitter and the core of A TP adenosine and adenosine. This is another

62:42 example to understand about these molecules. is a molecule that makes you

62:48 It is naturally produced in your So these are all endogenous substances.

62:53 , naturally endogenously produced within your body in this case. So you have

62:59 demain and ademas levels would go up the evening and it will bind the

63:05 with sus on neurons and it will glutamate release and it will make you

63:12 . And then in the morning, levels, the synthesis of adenosine by

63:18 will decrease and the signaling of a will decrease and this is morning

63:26 So in the morning. Now, decreasing adenosine levels, you'll have more

63:31 . Glutamate is the nature excited for neuro transmitter. So you will be

63:35 energized. Your brain will be awaken and a deist and receptors are

63:45 targets of caffeine. You know how are, all, most of us

63:51 addicted to coffee and right. Some like, don't talk to me before

63:54 have my coffee or my tea or bubble tea or something. And uh

64:01 , and that's because it interacts with denison signaling. Caffeine promotes glutamate release

64:08 it's a fairly addictive substance. And have like often intersections. We have

64:13 caffeine dealers in one intersection. Two them were Starbucks. The third one

64:18 like Dunkin Donuts or something like So, uh and it's, and

64:24 , it's like a lot of people it like almost everybody. I

64:28 I don't know anybody that doesn't use in one form or another shape or

64:33 , you know, uh different cultural variations of caffeine supply in South

64:41 It's the, the tea uh and like Middle, middle East

64:48 It's also the, then you go Africa, it's a coffee and also

64:53 nut, which was used to be basis of caffeine and Coca Cola.

64:57 comes from a cola nut with pure of caffeine. And now a lot

65:01 stuff that we have that we consume potentially synthetic caffeine uh in the drink

65:08 . Now some other interesting neurotransmitters worth that will come up during the

65:14 And the reason for them coming up nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide and

65:20 And the endo cannabis, these are because gasses and endocannabinoid are lipid

65:29 And that means that they're not stored vesicles because vesicles are phospholipid bilayer and

65:35 just cross freely. So that means there is a different way, just

65:39 we saw a different way with neuropeptides synthesized and released. There are different

65:44 , different ways by which these molecules synthesized based on the levels of activity

65:50 how they get released. In this , without vesicles. Once they get

65:54 synthesized inside the cells, they truly through plasma membranes and target their respective

66:01 , ni nitrous oxide receptors and endocannabinoid . So these are endogenous cannabinoids that

66:08 produce inside our bodies. And cannabinoids from cannabis plants because phyto cannabinoids found

66:15 cannabis plants interact with our endocannabinoid system , and other receptors that we'll be

66:22 in this class also. But these endogenous molecules that are produced. So

66:27 , the rules for them are going be different no vesicles and we'll learn

66:31 these rules and functions of these different as we continue the next three lectures

66:37 neurotransmission. Thank you very much for here. Uh And I'll see everyone

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