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Developmental changes in Parvalbumin regulate presynaptic Ca²⁺ signaling

Collin, Thibault ; Chat, Mireille ; Lucas, Marie Gabrielle ; Moreno, Herman ; Racay, Peter ; Schwaller, Beat ; Marty, Alain ; Llano, Isabel

In: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2005, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 96-107

Certain interneurons contain large concentrations of specific Ca²⁺-binding proteins (CBPs), but consequences on presynaptic Ca²⁺ signaling are poorly understood. Here we show that expression of the slow CBP parvalbumin (PV) in cerebellar interneurons is cell specific and developmentally regulated, leading to characteristic changes in presynaptic Ca²⁺ dynamics (Cai). Using...

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Somatic calcium level reports integrated spiking activity of cerebellar interneurons in vitro and in vivo

Franconville, Romain ; Revet, Gaëlle ; Astorga, Guadalupe ; Schwaller, Beat ; Llano, Isabel

In: Journal of Neurophysiology, 2011, vol. 106, no. 4, p. 1793-1805

We examined the relationship between somatic Ca²⁺ signals and spiking activity of cerebellar molecular layer interneurons (MLIs) in adult mice. Using two-photon microscopy in conjunction with cell-attached recordings in slices, we show that in tonically firing MLIs loaded with high-affinity Ca²⁺ probes, Ca²⁺-dependent fluorescence transients are absent. Spike-triggered averages of...