{"title":"Tail-clamping stimulation increases phase-locking neurons in the hippocampus of anaesthetized rat","authors":"Y. Wang, X. J. Zheng, Z. Feng","doi":"10.1109/BHI.2014.6864472","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Phase-locking is an important encoding mode in the hippocampal region of brain where neuronal firing concentrates on a certain phase of the periodic field potential, especially θ rhythm. It can be observed during many behaviors while the locked-phase varies accordingly. In this study, the changes of neuronal phase-locking induced by somatosensory stimulation of tail-clamping were investigated. The local field potential and spike signals were recorded in hippocampal CA1 region of anesthetized rats with microelectrode array. The phase-locking relationship was analyzed with Raleigh test and spike-phase histogram. The results showed that during spontaneous activity, 3 of 20 examined neurons were phase-locking to the θ rhythm of the field potential. However, during the tail clamping periods, the number of phase-locking neurons increased from 3 to 8, and the mean locked-phase shifted towards the negative peak of the field potential cycle, which became θ rhythm dominated. These findings suggest that the hippocampus may encode somatosensory information with the phase-locking neurons and by shifting their locked-phases.","PeriodicalId":177948,"journal":{"name":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2014.6864472","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Phase-locking is an important encoding mode in the hippocampal region of brain where neuronal firing concentrates on a certain phase of the periodic field potential, especially θ rhythm. It can be observed during many behaviors while the locked-phase varies accordingly. In this study, the changes of neuronal phase-locking induced by somatosensory stimulation of tail-clamping were investigated. The local field potential and spike signals were recorded in hippocampal CA1 region of anesthetized rats with microelectrode array. The phase-locking relationship was analyzed with Raleigh test and spike-phase histogram. The results showed that during spontaneous activity, 3 of 20 examined neurons were phase-locking to the θ rhythm of the field potential. However, during the tail clamping periods, the number of phase-locking neurons increased from 3 to 8, and the mean locked-phase shifted towards the negative peak of the field potential cycle, which became θ rhythm dominated. These findings suggest that the hippocampus may encode somatosensory information with the phase-locking neurons and by shifting their locked-phases.