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Measurement and State-Dependent Modulation of Hypoglossal Motor Excitability and Responsivity In-Vivo.

ABSTRACT: Motoneurons are the final output pathway for the brain's influence on behavior. Here we identify properties of hypoglossal motor output to the tongue musculature. Tongue motor control is critical to the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea, a common and serious sleep-related breathing disorder. Studies were performed on mice expressing a light sensitive cation channel exclusively on cholinergic neurons (ChAT-ChR2(H134R)-EYFP). Discrete photostimulations under isoflurane-induced anesthesia from an optical probe positioned above the medullary surface and hypoglossal motor nucleus elicited discrete increases in tongue motor output, with the magnitude of responses dependent on stimulation power (P?

SUBMITTER: Aggarwal JA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6969049 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Measurement and State-Dependent Modulation of Hypoglossal Motor Excitability and Responsivity In-Vivo.

Aggarwal Jasmin A JA Liu Wen-Ying WY Montandon Gaspard G Liu Hattie H Hughes Stuart W SW Horner Richard L RL

Scientific reports 20200117 1

Motoneurons are the final output pathway for the brain's influence on behavior. Here we identify properties of hypoglossal motor output to the tongue musculature. Tongue motor control is critical to the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea, a common and serious sleep-related breathing disorder. Studies were performed on mice expressing a light sensitive cation channel exclusively on cholinergic neurons (ChAT-ChR2(H134R)-EYFP). Discrete photostimulations under isoflurane-induced anesthesia fro ...[more]

PMID: 31953471

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