Impaired motor coordination and Purkinje cell excitability in mice lacking calretinin.

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Author	Schiffmann, Serge N. Cheron, Guy Lohof, Ann M. D'Alcantara, Pablo Meyer, Michael Schurmans, Stéphane
Copyright Year	1999
Abstract	In the cerebellum, the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse can undergo long-term synaptic plasticity suggested to underlie motor learning and resulting from variations in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i). Ca2+ binding proteins are enriched in the cerebellum, but their role in information processing is not clear. Here, we show that mice deficient in calretinin (Cr-/-) are impaired in tests of motor coordination. An impairment in Ca2+ homeostasis in Cr-/- Purkinje cells was supported by the high Ca2+-saturation of calbindin-D28k in these cells. The firing behavior of Purkinje cells is severely affected in Cr-/- alert mice, with alterations of simple spike firing rate, complex spike duration, and simple spike pause. In contrast, in slices, transmission at parallel fiber- or climbing fiber-Purkinje cell synapses is unaltered, indicating that marked modifications of the firing behavior in vivo can be undetectable in slice. Thus, these results show that calretinin plays a major role at the network level in cerebellar physiology.
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DOI	10.1073/pnas.96.9.5257
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PubMed reference number	10220453
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.9.5257
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	96
Issue Number	9
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
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Resource Type	Article