Galanin-Immunoreactivity Identifies a Distinct Population of Inhibitory Interneurons in Laminae I-III of the Rat Spinal Cord

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  • Sheena YX Tiong
    Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
  • Erika Polgár
    Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
  • Josie C van Kralingen
    Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
  • Masahiko Watanabe
    Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan
  • Andrew J Todd
    Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ UK

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<jats:sec><jats:title>Background:</jats:title><jats:p> Inhibitory interneurons constitute 30-40% of neurons in laminae I-III and have an important antinociceptive role. However, because of the difficulty in classifying them we know little about their organisation. Previous studies have identified 3 non-overlapping groups of inhibitory interneuron, which contain neuropeptide Y (NPY), neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) or parvalbumin, and have shown that these differ in postsynaptic targets. Some inhibitory interneurons contain galanin and the first aim of this study was to determine whether these form a different population from those containing NPY, nNOS or parvalbumin. We also estimated the proportion of neurons and GABAergic axons that contain galanin in laminae I-III. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results:</jats:title><jats:p> Galanin cells were concentrated in laminae I-IIo, with few in laminae IIi-III. Galanin showed minimal co-localisation with NPY, nNOS or parvalbumin in laminae I-II, but most galanin-containing cells in lamina III were nNOS-positive. Galanin cells constituted ∼7%, 3% and 2% of all neurons in laminae I, II and III, and we estimate that this corresponds to 26%, 10% and 5% of the GABAergic neurons in these laminae. However, galanin was only found in ∼6% of GABAergic boutons in laminae I-IIo, and ∼1% of those in laminae IIi-III. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions:</jats:title><jats:p> These results show that galanin, NPY, nNOS and parvalbumin can be used to define four distinct neurochemical populations of inhibitory interneurons. Together with results of a recent study, they suggest that the galanin and NPY populations account for around half of the inhibitory interneurons in lamina I and a quarter of those in lamina II. </jats:p></jats:sec>

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  • Molecular Pain

    Molecular Pain 7 1744-8069, 2011-01-01

    SAGE Publications

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