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Endogenous dopamine suppresses initiation of swimming in prefeeding zebrafish larvae

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authors

  • Thirumalai, V.
  • Cline, Hollis

publication date

  • September 2008

journal

  • Journal of Neurophysiology  Journal

abstract

  • Dopamine is a key neuromodulator of locomotory circuits, yet the role that dopamine plays during development of these circuits is less well understood. Here, we describe a suppressive effect of dopamine on swim circuits in larval zebrafish. Zebrafish larvae exhibit marked changes in swimming behavior between 3 days postfertilization (dpf) and 5dpf. We found that swim episodes were fewer and of longer durations at 3 than at 5dpf. At 3dpf, application of dopamine as well as bupropion, a dopamine reuptake blocker, abolished spontaneous fictive swim episodes. Blocking D2 receptors increased frequency of occurrence of episodes and activation of adenylyl cyclase, a downstream target inhibited by D2-receptor signaling, blocked the inhibitory effect of dopamine. Dopamine had no effect on motor neuron firing properties, input impedance, resting membrane potential, or the amplitude of spike afterhyperpolarization. Application of dopamine either to the isolated spinal cord or locally within the cord does not decrease episode frequency, whereas dopamine application to the brain silences episodes, suggesting a supraspinal locus of dopaminergic action. Treating larvae with 10 microM MPTP reduced catecholaminergic innervation in the brain and increased episode frequency. These data indicate that dopamine inhibits the initiation of fictive swimming episodes at 3dpf. We found that at 5dpf, exogenously applied dopamine inhibits swim episodes, yet the dopamine reuptake blocker or the D2-receptor antagonist have no effect on episode frequency. These results led us to propose that endogenous dopamine release transiently suppresses swim circuits in developing zebrafish.

subject areas

  • 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine
  • Action Potentials
  • Age Factors
  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Brain
  • Bupropion
  • Colforsin
  • Dopamine
  • Dopamine Agents
  • Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Larva
  • N-Methylaspartate
  • Neural Inhibition
  • Neurons
  • Patch-Clamp Techniques
  • Probability
  • Spinal Cord
  • Swimming
  • Time Factors
  • Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
  • Zebrafish
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2544474

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0022-3077

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1152/jn.90568.2008

PubMed ID

  • 18562547
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1635

end page

  • 1648

volume

  • 100

issue

  • 3

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