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00:02 this is lecture three of neuroscience Tuesday thursday. And for the last two

00:11 I introduced the subject matter of covid and infections in the C.

00:16 S. Because it was highly It was also something that was quite

00:22 as things were unfolding in the last years and they're still unfolding in as

00:27 as the long-term consequences on cns infections COVID-19 and artist. So when covid

00:37 we were all scared we didn't know exactly it acts in our bodies and

00:42 didn't know exactly how it acts in brains. And so I became interested

00:47 how do you get a brain infection Covid 19. And obviously if you

00:54 enough of the virus in your blood have a heavy viral load in your

01:02 . Virus in the blood can reach . N. S. So you

01:06 get infected by having a systemic infection your blood but not necessarily in the

01:11 . N. S. And there's be a possibility of things crossing from

01:17 blood into the brain uh nasal If you see here in this image

01:25 have these olfactory nerve endings that are basically at the top or the bottom

01:33 your skull on the top of your where you have these tiny openings in

01:39 skull. You're looking at the skull from where the brain would be

01:44 It's called crystal galley and crib reform here and you can see you have

01:51 openings the small ministrations and the actual bone. These olfactory nerve endings will

02:02 pass through these openings in the skull your nose. So then it became

02:09 question while can you not by inhaling , get these nerve endings infected and

02:17 talk about that in a second. that means that the virus doesn't have

02:21 be in the blood. The virus enter into your nasal mucous epithelium and

02:30 infection there. However, if it the blood, What happens with COVID

02:39 ? There's lack of oxygen and there's hypoxia neurons are very sensitive to oxygen

02:47 loss of oxygen to neurons causes fairly death in neurons. So neurons are

02:53 of oxygen for longer than two they start dying. Unlike other organs

02:59 the body and cells, neurons are sensitive to that. Now if you

03:04 hypoxia, you also breach what is the blood brain barrier. So in

03:13 the blood and the brain we have blood brain barrier. This blood brain

03:21 is you have endothelial cells which make the blood vessel walls, you have

03:27 that surround it and astra sites and are tight junctions between endothelial cells and

03:35 basically don't allow anything into the brain there's a transporter for that substance.

03:40 there's something that binds the receptor and transported across the blood brain barrier or

03:46 to cross the blood brain barrier. normal physiological conditions. Astrocytes is another

03:53 . So astrocytes the glial cells and will rather and processes around the blood

03:59 and they'll be checking of what is from the blood into the brain.

04:06 if you have hypoxia this blood brain becomes loose essentially If you have infection

04:14 inflammation this blood brain barrier becomes loose means now this tight junctions and the

04:21 that control things passing from the blood the brain are no longer working

04:26 That means things from the blood can more freely enter into the brain.

04:33 whenever virus enters into the body whether in the nasal cavity or whether it's

04:39 the lungs and other organs, the has to hang on to something that

04:44 is an H two receptor that the binds to ace two receptors a a

04:52 receptors and they are angiotensin convert converting to receptors that are found in many

05:01 organs are kidney, lungs but also the C. N. S.

05:06 also in the peripheral nervous system. do these epithelial cells have AIDS to

05:14 . Because it would be very easy the virus enters into this mucus layer

05:18 you have the nerve endings hanging out the factory uh olfactory receptor neurons.

05:26 if there is a stew receptors on nerve endings boom it's very easy then

05:30 infected. You allowed the virus to onto something then of course you know

05:36 will go inside the salad abuse its machinery and trying to replicate itself.

05:42 don't have a stew receptors. These neurons but instead the cells that surround

05:48 , they're called sustain tacular cells. contain ace two receptor. So it's

05:52 likely that infection in this mucus olfactory layers and in between happens by infection

06:00 such spectacular cells once a spectacular In fact that there seems to be

06:05 least one way in which cell can another way is in this trans cellular

06:11 , which we don't understand very well . However, if from such spectacular

06:16 you have an infection of the olfactory , you will have one of the

06:21 symptoms in the P. M. . Which is loss of smell.

06:25 when these olfactory nerve endings get that's when you have a loss of

06:30 , which one of the symptoms for 19 not everybody experiences it. But

06:36 if you are experiencing anosmia which is of smell is because there's an infection

06:44 the level at least the olfactory epithelium not in the higher centers because from

06:50 you can climb up further into your . So uh there's a lot of

06:57 here and we'll come back and talk this information but what we talked about

07:03 the peripheral nervous system when you have infection of these peripheral nerve endings,

07:08 have anosmia which is loss of You can also have a goose CIA

07:16 is loss of taste. And that if there is an infection of the

07:20 nerve endings essentially the process dictates to in the periphery but what if it

07:27 up into C. N. If it gets into C.

07:30 S. H. Two receptors are on neurons on glia their present and

07:38 cells. So once it gets into . N. S. It can

07:43 bind onto glial cells, bind onto . And what does it do?

07:47 A mild symptom of a C. . S. Covid. 19 infection

07:54 headache and vertigo. That is if don't have a bad infection. But

08:02 there's a significant infection in the N. S. Covid 19 can

08:07 to coagulate sympathies which is basically almost blood vessel disease. It can lead

08:15 rupture of blood vessels or stroke and hemorrhaging. It can lead to hemorrhaging

08:22 forming of the uh coagulation and hematomas and uh and and hardening of the

08:30 and the brain can lead to meningitis is an infection and inflammation of the

08:39 can lead to acute necrotic and cephalopod . Since a falopa. Theism brain

08:49 with inflammation and necrotic is that it start killing the south will be necrosis

08:57 the neurons of neurons and glial So these are very very serious

09:06 Heavy viral infections in the C. . S. Uh so when we

09:13 back at the end of the semester included additional information. I will not

09:17 you responsible to discussing all these other but I did want to introduce the

09:25 matter because we're still going through My daughter's school had choose a debate

09:33 I think 10 cases in that high from the beginning of the semester and

09:38 a small school, just a few students. So it's it's still

09:43 That's why it's really important that we're of it that we still uh we

09:49 all of the instructions about the symptoms infections and things like that that you

09:55 you should follow. And when we back at the end of the semester

09:58 will give you more information. And at the end of the semester you

10:03 understand a lot more about brain function anatomy. So we're gonna be able

10:07 put these new things within the new of understanding and context that you will

10:16 . Alright so this is where I it to end lecture to and start

10:21 three uh which is positive supported. Lecture three is also our first lecture

10:31 neurons and glia About 10% of all the cells and the c.

10:39 A. neurons, paglia. Up maybe 10 years ago, 90% of

10:48 were studying the 10 the brain the because everybody thought that neurons produce action

10:56 they are responsible for chemical neuro transmission really where the exciting things are happening

11:03 the more we reveal about glia the what types of lee and their

11:08 We realize more and more about glee how intricately and actively it's involved in

11:15 signaling in neuronal signaling, neuronal synaptic enough to genesis formation of new synopsis

11:22 so on. So neurons again, of our like chips and the chocolate

11:26 cookie and glia is like a dough a lot more of it to support

11:32 chocolate chips. But not only that you don't have dough, you have

11:38 . If you don't have chocolate you have sugar cookie. I guess

11:43 are kind of boring without each So you need both glia and neurons

11:49 both are actually active, not just sauce, including leo sauce in this

11:55 the game and the brain is mainly the stain. Because we as we

12:00 the gross anatomy of the brain in 18th and 19th century. And we

12:04 describing the specific areas of the brain the 20th century with cider, architect

12:11 methods and different stains is what revealed cider architecture of the brain reveal different

12:20 . So we became increasingly more interested the second half of the 20th century

12:26 what are the subtypes of neurons and , how they different, how they

12:31 around and form these networks. What some of the rules and the way

12:37 communicate with each other. What are of the properties that they have and

12:42 amongst each other as well. And of the slides that we will look

12:47 their quite basic and you already know information from other courses. And there's

12:53 things here that are quite specific and some things that you'll remind yourself and

12:58 , okay I I realized that I that. So neuron cells like other

13:04 that have Selma's that have nucleus that mitochondria have pollen, roberson's golgi apparatus

13:11 into plasma, particular rough and the particularly just about like any other

13:16 But then we go to this process called axle. And it's not like

13:21 other cells, it's quite unique to . These are axles that have myelin

13:27 them. The smiling sheets which provides to axon axon initial segment in this

13:34 will produce the action potential. And have this installation so that action potential

13:39 gets produced at this axon initial segment to the selma and it travels long

13:46 , sometimes few micrometers, sometimes 10 , sometimes centimeters in distance. It

13:52 reproduce the same fast large electrical external terminal. And that's why you

13:58 insulation in certain specific mechanisms by which information gets communicated. The other thing

14:06 neurons have dendrites And we already alluded in the last couple of lectures,

14:11 have these dendritic spines and these dendritic are the most plastic units, meaning

14:18 these dendritic spines can change their shape on activity. There can be elimination

14:25 dendritic spines when you're born and your are formed. You have a lot

14:30 than riddick spines and synapses that you up when you're adult, you prune

14:35 dendritic spines that are not being You prune the synapses that are not

14:39 used. You strengthen and potentially enlarge synapses and the pathways that are being

14:47 and are being stimulated by external or processing here. So when the axon

14:54 action potential it will conduct it all way to external terminal and external

14:59 You have the vesicles that are filled neurotransmitter and that electrical potential is necessary

15:06 with calcium for these neurotransmitters to be onto the pasta topic. South boston

15:11 side. And so most of the in the south will be formed on

15:15 almost and underdone drives. But there also some synopsis that will target

15:22 This is very basic information of N. A. The genes get

15:27 into RNA. A. They get from the nucleus through these nuclear transport

15:33 shut outs. I'd like to mention part that after transcription into RNA you

15:40 splicing and splicing is really removing the coding regions of the code and splice

15:50 create splice variants splice variants. That that there might be a slightly different

16:00 . Uh amina acids is slightly different , It gets coded by this messenger

16:08 into finished enzyme or finished protein. you think about it, we're splice

16:14 of each other. That's what makes a little bit different than our thinking

16:18 our perceptions and this is a normal to have splice variants as a normal

16:26 variance. But if the splicing process when you're throwing out note coding

16:32 you're really like rebuilding this code. you have a mistake someplace there and

16:39 if that mistake again is related to or two, a few amino assets

16:44 sequence a few amino assets that can in a pathological condition. So a

16:50 of what we're gonna talk about is and protein channels. The messenger RNA

16:56 code for these proteins and protein And if you have slight impairments and

17:03 of these protein channels you have upset of the protein channels. You have

17:07 neuronal function which can lead to pathological . Some of the proteins that we

17:15 discuss. Most of the proteins that discuss our membrane associated uh some of

17:21 proteins that we'll talk about are freely . So most of the membrane associated

17:27 will talk about our receptor channels and protein coupled receptors that are responsible for

17:34 and medical tropic signaling in the I'd like to remind everyone about this

17:42 . I like the slide because last introduced to you there are so many

17:48 levels of thinking about the brain and . There's so many different views you

17:54 have. You can have a single view and just focusing on where that

17:59 molecule was located. You can trace cells, you can look at structures

18:07 networks. You can look at the brain activity in the whole brain.

18:12 can look at gene mutations and we living in the post genomic error.

18:19 this is a useful technique if you example want to compare normal brain versus

18:24 disease brain like an epileptic brain. you want to understand more of a

18:30 eye view as I say, or of a holistic view of gene fluctuations

18:36 epileptic brain. So when these techniques out about 20 years ago or

18:42 they were very novel. Now you micro race that are pretty common.

18:48 race will contain up to 30,000 little in them each. Well will contain

18:53 little piece of synthetic D. A. That you have put the

18:59 synthesized. So you know what is to bind to. We can think

19:03 this as a very sophisticated little piece velcro in there. And so if

19:07 a matching sequence to this piece of it will bind and will stay

19:13 It will indicate that there's more of gene for example or whatever is in

19:18 in this well versus the other. now you can take brain one and

19:23 to you can put brain one in vial and label it in red brain

19:30 label it in green. You apply it to D. N.

19:34 micro ray jeans with reduced expression in to will show up in red because

19:41 have a different diets. Usually fluorescent will reduce expression in brain one will

19:46 up in green jeans that are no between brain one and brain to will

19:53 in yellow. So you will okay great. But isn't that gonna

19:58 me so much information on hundreds of potentially that went up in their levels

20:06 expression and epileptic brain and maybe hundreds genes that went down what is

20:14 So if you're studying epilepsy, you're gonna go back to the pub mad

20:19 , searches your mentor the papers that in front of you on the adaptive

20:23 and you're gonna say, what are genes on the epilepsy and you're gonna

20:28 . Well, you know, I see 200 genes that one top an

20:32 brain but it seems like these 20 ones that are associated with genetic mutations

20:39 and apple etc. So I'm gonna into these 20 genes. More clothes

20:44 , do you follow the genes that up regulated or down regulated? What

20:50 more important? Is it more important you make a lot more of something

20:56 that you don't make enough of I don't know. And these functions

21:00 the genes could be very different? gene that went out could be down

21:04 something, Okay, so so we don't know. Then you go,

21:10 , you talk to your mentor and , we're going to study these two

21:13 because I just wrote a grant honor need data. Have you know my

21:19 and these two genes. And so you're a Monica hall you say okay

21:23 will do the work on micro race these two genes. But I'm also

21:27 in the third gene. Can I I do some work on that

21:30 Nobody's looking at it. So again can pursue the the hot five,

21:36 know, genes that are involved in are being studied now the last five

21:41 or you can go for something nobody about. It's like in life.

21:46 know you can jump on a trend be a part of something or you

21:49 fight the current and get nowhere or will turn around and say oh my

21:56 this person is fighting the current but all the way at the top there

22:00 . So just depends the same as science. So how do you pursue

22:05 ? Intelligent thinking, hypothesis driven I have to come up with a

22:13 . This gene goes up therefore something . The hypothesis should have directionality.

22:18 something goes up, something is also go up, something goes up,

22:22 is gonna go down. So this how you pursue this work. But

22:27 gives you a good understanding of what happening on a whole brain level,

22:32 in certain conditions and when we go some other organ Alice issue have smooth

22:38 plasmid particular um which does the same as another cells involved in protein folding

22:44 you have calcium regulation. So you internal calcium stores. You can call

22:49 the release of internal calcium to golgi . There's gonna be post translational processing

22:55 protein sorting, membrane bound versus freely them Brain. Uh really floating protein

23:04 . And as I mentioned, the is only about 5% of the total

23:08 mass but it consumes over 20% of total body energy. So that means

23:13 lot of energy metabolism that we're doing out of equilibrium and non linearly driven

23:22 feed the brain, so to Uh And the energy comes in the

23:28 of a Tps. They have dietary energy sources protein sugar fat to do

23:34 to peru vic acid oxidation information of . T. P. And

23:39 02. You have the sources of . And so neurons will have a

23:44 of a teepee and certain parts of will have a lot of energy source

23:48 . T. P. So for this Omagh's and then dendritic spines because

23:53 talked about dendritic spines being somewhat biochemical . They have mitochondria in energy source

23:59 then external terminals because you need to the vesicles and recycle the vesicles also

24:06 higher levels of E. T. . So it's distributed strategically throughout neuron

24:12 it needs these sources of energy. mouse of course cells and how the

24:19 doctrine proponents were correct neurons are discrete that had their own phosphor lipid bi

24:27 membrane that surrounds them. This phosphor bi layer is comprised of the hydro

24:34 Killeen phosphate literal group, which is head and the hydrophobic fatty acid tails

24:42 hydrophobic. Once they are afraid of will co join together and forming this

24:48 layer and the hydro filic heads will exposed to either the extra cellular environment

24:55 the side of plastic environment. plasma membranes of course, will have

25:00 membrane proteins, membrane attached proteins, , cholesterol is embedded in their

25:08 carbohydrates and underneath the structure of this membrane is supported by side of skeletal

25:17 and this plasma membrane is not The south and the structure of the

25:25 are not like a concrete. The membrane constantly moves around and they could

25:31 reorganization within plasma membrane of these different that are embedded. They can be

25:38 in. They could be taken out the number and they can also travel

25:42 the number and quite far and quite . So the plasma membrane is really

25:49 a fluid dynamic model and for that dynamic bottle, I'd like to show

25:58 movie here machinery of the inner It's very quiet between the living machinery

26:08 the inner cell and the harsh conditions the outside world stands the cell's plasma

26:15 as crucial as this barrier is. surprisingly flexible, push it and watch

26:22 move poke hard enough and it might and begin to regroup. The lipid

26:29 of the membrane naturally assemble in a layer because their tails repel water as

26:35 heads attracted, throw in some cholesterol a few carbohydrates. And you have

26:41 basic structure of a plasma membrane within lipid molecules. We also find different

26:50 which do various things for the For instance, they receive signals from

26:56 world outside or they transport nutrients and . So nature composes the membrane with

27:03 combination or mosaic of different lipids, and proteins and these molecules are not

27:13 . They constantly move within the fluidly changing their positions. The survival

27:22 all life rests on this veil of . A supple membrane, just two

27:30 thick. This kind of a rearrangement is illustrated here with mechanical touch.

27:39 something that happens we will talk about you have side of skeletal elements underneath

27:45 that support the structure. Side of elements are also dynamic and they can

27:50 their shape and their structure and as change their shape and structure, you

27:54 see that some parts of the It can actually collapse if there is

27:58 support underneath that. All right. so you have these rearrangements that

28:05 It's not that the cells get although there is McCann oh receptors and

28:10 that are responsive responsive to mechanical But this rearrangement that happens and this

28:18 that you see. It's just a of the normal processes too. So

28:23 because you have all of these different , it's actually fluid mosaic because these

28:29 change and rearrange themselves. And you have this plasticity and fluidity in the

28:35 plasma membrane itself to reshape its possible bi layer arrangements as well. The

28:52 of skeletal elements that we're discussing. three micro tubules, neuro filaments and

29:00 filaments. Micro filaments are the smallest of skeletal elements of their comprised of

29:06 molecules. And if you remember from your previous biology courses, these elements

29:13 prelim arise and form longer chains or can deepen memorize or the chains,

29:18 chains can be broken up into shorter . What does that mean? That

29:24 that the underlying structure beside the skeletal could be changed, can be

29:30 If you change the structure then you change the shape of the plasma

29:36 So action will be the smallest and have the micro tubules which are the

29:42 side of skeletal elements here. You an electron microscope picture. So remember

29:48 microscope has really high resolution of about nanometer and it's a cross section through

29:55 axon. What you're seeing here is the axle, the smiling and it

30:02 like wines going through here. And because milan will wrap itself around in

30:10 and the cnR size will wrap around sheets. And so these are the

30:17 of myelin that you see on the . But if you look on the

30:21 of the axon, you will see other lines. They look like kind

30:26 like tubes almost like little blood vessels here. And those are micro

30:32 And so apart from the structure and shape of the membrane that the side

30:39 skeleton and support, they are very in involved in the acts of plasma

30:46 cellular transport. And it's very important you have again, a normal

30:53 normal alignment of what we call the tubular highways because if you cross over

30:59 entangle them, there's gonna be a jam and everybody's gonna be standing still

31:05 23 hours until the tow trucks show and clean up. And that's what

31:10 happen if you have abnormal structures or in these side of skeletal elements.

31:17 picture illustrates very nicely that the larger that are shown that purple is the

31:25 in yellow. You have tubular lint turbulent or micro tubules of the largest

31:33 , turbulence and accent for micro filaments in blue. And what this illustrates

31:41 the larger elements and micro tubules and prevalent and there are more surrounding of

31:48 core of the cell in the You can think of it as that

31:53 like the core the foundation of the and these smaller elements acting elements are

32:00 much located in the periphery. So ability to dynamically memorize deep elim

32:07 change the shape and the architecture of side of skeletal elements? The smaller

32:12 can influence the overall shape of the membrane on the outer boundaries specially have

32:19 slide here. But I don't like slide. So use a different

32:24 Which will I will make sure you also have it on your on your

32:33 , we're going to introduce a couple uh Pathologies today already. We talked

32:40 COVID-19 infections. This is a pathology we talked about symptomology loss of

32:47 loss of taste is a symptomology, is the symptomology. And we'll talk

32:53 Alzheimer's disease and we'll talk about Alzheimer's today. And we'll also come back

32:57 talk about Alzheimer's disease later in the . So today we'll describe certain things

33:03 Alzheimer's disease when we talk about neural and energetic networks in the brain will

33:08 back and talk about Alzheimer's disease we'll talk about therapies for Alzheimer's

33:14 And in general, in this you're gonna develop a little bit of

33:18 I call a clinical language that you start thinking about when you see a

33:24 ? What what is the disease? is the definition of this disease?

33:29 are some of the other things that associated with this disease? Why am

33:33 talking about Alzheimer's disease in relation to skeletal elements. For example, what

33:40 Alzheimer's disease. When you hear alzheimer's think it's a developmental disorder? Do

33:48 think it's a middle aged disorder? think it's a a dementia That happens

33:56 50 years of older? You don't of Children with Alzheimer's disease?

34:01 So the prevalence C or the onset the disease is a part of the

34:05 , part of the clinical language What year or when is the disease

34:14 prevalent? C could be how many ? One in 1000 or 5000 and

34:21 from this disease? Oh then when think of Alzheimer's disease, what comes

34:28 mind when you think of symptoms? , somebody came into the doctor's office

34:36 said I can't move my leg. think I have Alzheimer's or is it

34:43 coming in saying you know I feel anxious, I can't remember the names

34:48 my close ones. I'm forgetting things easily confusing the time of the

34:53 That's typically the early symptomology of Alzheimer's is loss of short term memory and

35:01 anxious because you're not remembering things. then there's progression of the disease.

35:06 the disease can start out with short memory loss and it can end with

35:13 ? Uh What are the pathology? is the pathology? What is the

35:19 pathology? What is the brain pathology the disease? Not the mechanisms of

35:24 . Not how the disease forms. what do we see in pathology?

35:28 so there are typical hallmarks of Alzheimer's . One of them is an extra

35:34 formation of beta amyloid plaques. abnormal aggregation of the proteins here calcification

35:42 then finally inflammation surrounding these flax. these flax will affect neuronal function.

35:49 least flax are located close to accent segments, accident, initial segments will

35:56 of producing action productions. It means will start failing and communicating with each

36:01 properly and these plaques will form, also hear maybe senile plaques or dementia

36:08 . So these are beta amyloid plaques will form outside of the seats.

36:13 happens on the inside of the south Nurofen morally tangles and neural liberally

36:20 What do they do, neuro And they're tangled up and that starts

36:26 the side of skeletal elements inside inside skeletal transport, plasma transport, cellular

36:34 . What do you have inside the ? Now you have traffic jams.

36:40 you have this micro tubular highways. you have entanglements? You have inflammation

36:45 the cell. Things are not being . You have impairment of transport inside

36:51 cell and on the outside of the you have inability preneurs to communicate with

36:59 other and failure action potential production. are the typical hallmarks that you will

37:05 that, you know, it's something the scientists hope to diagnose early

37:10 Uh the blood markers are the final markers are the genetic markers that that

37:17 that say that you will have much predisposition for this disease versus a person

37:22 has a different subset of of So um quite often Alzheimer's disease definitively

37:32 diagnosed postmortem after death by looking at person's brain by seeing the plaques.

37:40 we don't really have a great way light up the plaques and image them

37:45 it's really advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease postmortem and severe Alzheimer's disease, you

37:53 see brains that looked like this that have significantly shrunken and there's a significant

38:01 of degree matter. Green matter are den rides and the, so most

38:07 the cells wide matter are the accents the cells. So there seems to

38:14 like highways that are more rigid and that are left in neurons and their

38:20 and synaptic communications are now gone. if the early onset and symptomology of

38:29 disease is not remembering things, feeling , confusing the time of the

38:36 advanced stages of the disease lead to . Because if you have neuro degeneration

38:42 memory areas, well you forgot something ? You don't have memory potentials.

38:49 have neuro degeneration in areas of the that are responsible for vital functions like

38:54 the brain stem for example, or functions of taking care of yourself.

39:02 functions. So you're not capable of that. Your brain is not capable

39:08 swallowing, feeding yourself and eventually maybe even breathing and driving the heart which

39:17 brain stem responsible for this vital water . So uh this is introduction to

39:26 disease. And we'll talk about several in this course and we will come

39:30 and talk about Alzheimer's disease and the that are being used for treating Alzheimer's

39:37 and the fact that they're quite there's no cure for Alzheimer's disease.

39:42 we can only slow down with progression the existing uh pharmaceutical drugs. So

39:55 features that we already discussed is do have axon axon initial segment will produce

40:00 action potential. This axon typically has terminal and like the further stand is

40:06 the terminal. And and then in are buttons of Bhutan's and present buttons

40:13 passing could be collaterals killing off these and contacting more local cells in the

40:21 . And you can see that axon will happen by the congress will have

40:25 vesicles that are loaded with neurotransmitter juxtaposed the post synaptic densities that will contain

40:32 collections of receptors that will bind to neurotransmitters. You have two types of

40:41 of plasmid transport. You have slow fast transport. The slow transport was

40:47 in the early days it would be injection of a die until larger axon

40:50 they would tie it off with a and they would watch how fast this

40:55 travels over distance. And so that a slow the fast was later

41:00 And radioactivity plate acids can be used trace this fast transport. You have

41:09 that are so horrible like little motor or carrier molecules that will be involved

41:15 this transport and it will be associated the Migra tubules. And Ineson is

41:21 to transport. Things enter greatly from soma into the periphery and dynamic is

41:28 to be a mother uh equivalent kind a motor protein that will transport the

41:34 back. Retrograde lee from the preference the cell. Right so again,

41:41 need this transport. You need the structure without any entanglements. Without any

41:48 . In order to have that Sir transport, which is important for both

41:53 necessities of the sound. Also slow that the cell needs to survive and

41:59 on. Okay, so we talked the stains and the stains will reveal

42:09 south and the axonal transport. We take advantage of this axonal transport in

42:16 to reveal the connectivity ease between different of the brain or skin to neurons

42:22 neurons to neurons. And some of popular dies or tracer. Our horseradish

42:30 dates and also viruses like herpes virus rabies virus that are capable of retrograde

42:37 and retrograde transport is really cool because can take advantage of it. Inject

42:43 in the periphery or ask a question neurons innovating this part of the

42:49 And so you inject a little The dye gets taken on by axons

42:54 gets transported retrograde into the selma. you can answer that question. It's

43:00 these neurons, this network that is to this piece of the brain and

43:06 in. There are some diets that capable and viruses. And we'll talk

43:11 herpes simplex virus when we talk about matter sensor systems and shingles. Some

43:18 are capable of bidirectional movement. They go retrograde lee and then they can

43:25 and terror greatly. There are certain that are trans synaptic. So that

43:31 that if you inject something here it travel to these neurons and then it

43:37 cross the synapse that die from this into another neuron. So you could

43:43 the secondary or the tertiary basically you have two or three junctions that you

43:48 synaptic connectivity and interconnected networks that you follow with these traces. Some dies

43:54 viruses but they will take advantage of axonal transport that we were discussing a

44:00 ago. This is a familiar slide that we discussed but every time you

44:08 at these you probably think about it little differently. We just talked about

44:13 fluid this is the plasma membrane and also talked about how you can change

44:19 side of skeletal elements, their their number, their position and as

44:23 change the underlying side of skeletal numb brain shape is going to

44:28 And we said that these dendritic spines the most plastic and the most dynamic

44:34 plastic means that they actually can change shape. They can change their size

44:40 dendritic spines that are going to be and establish themselves and form 123 pop

44:50 density. So three points of contact the symbols. And did X.

44:55 it expands that are not active. can be driven away completely and

45:03 And that for that to take place for the expanse to either become larger

45:08 disappear. You need energy, its dependent process. So the synapses that

45:15 active in the firing are likely to and strengthen. The ones that are

45:19 receiving any activity. The cell will what are you doing here? I

45:23 need you. I'm gonna reshuffle my my side of skeletal elements and I'm

45:28 go to this guy because he's getting of the inputs information. I'm gonna

45:32 him stronger and bigger. And that's you'll have to have rearrangement of

45:37 scalable elements. You will have the of the receptors potentially that uh translated

45:46 at least process post translation only at level of the spines where you'll have

45:51 . You'll have this polaroid como Um These are the most dynamic

45:59 We have more synapses and more spines born with and we end up in

46:05 . The ones that we don't use pruned as a part of natural

46:10 Just developmental process. The ones that strengthened and how they get strengthened and

46:18 ones and which neuronal networks that's actually individual human experience what we spend time

46:25 , you spend time on fantasy football for hours a day, you're gonna

46:31 really great circuits for you know, to do with team building things like

46:37 , you know. Um so we're these things when you're here sitting in

46:43 course and you learn something and you that means you strengthened or you may

46:48 built a new connection, you have a new spine or you have strengthened

46:55 communication a lot of it and you . So repetitive repetition, associative

47:02 associating things will help you learn. what you have. Bio one,

47:06 two and then other things because bio will repeat a lot of what bio

47:09 did. So this is all about shaping these spines and the connectivity.

47:18 one of the major issues with abnormal and one of the major conditions that

47:29 associated with abnormal formation of dendritic a lack of dendritic spines or abnormal

47:37 of index pines is associated with mental . So these are developmental mental

47:46 Most of the mental renovations are You read in your textbook, there

47:51 two boxes on the great expanse and representations. One of them talks about

47:59 Kiddo Nuria. Another one discusses a called fragile X syndrome and that's something

48:05 I will mention to you. It's genetic disorder and when fragile X syndrome

48:17 it happens because of this united it falls under the umbrella of autism

48:24 disorders. Because kids, it's X length more. So the Children will

48:36 certain features that artistic white Children have well. So the other thing is

48:44 you're learning about symptoms of the disease you will notice that there is an

48:51 between symptoms and many diseases. You Parkinson ian tremors and you can confuse

49:01 Iain Chalmers with life tonic clonic seizures epilepsy. You have anxiety and that

49:10 can be a part of the depression be a part of the alzheimer's

49:16 headaches can be a symptom of infection the brain. Apple upsy tumor traumatic

49:26 injury, the symptoms are can be . So, these these Children with

49:33 X syndrome, they are also likely have epilepsy and see years. The

49:39 point I'm trying to make here is at the normal spine arrangement and dendritic

49:49 versus one from the mentally retarded in or animal model. But it's found

49:56 infants like that, it's very clear if you look at the dendritic

50:01 he said, well, I don't much difference between the shaft, but

50:04 you look at it didn't really expand protrusions that are coming out and

50:08 well, this doesn't look like a spine anatomy. They are very much

50:16 , their protruding, that there's parts there's no dendritic spines and there's parts

50:21 there's a lot of them seems to very dense, it's very disorganized.

50:29 what happens if you have this abnormal of dendritic spines. Dendritic spines from

50:36 early days of ramon, alcohol and were thought to be then tennis receiving

50:41 information or the sides where the synaptic are taking place. If you look

50:47 this cell here, the major excitatory in the brain is glutamate, it's

50:54 acid neurotransmitter, glutamate, wherever there glutamate release and wherever you see these

51:01 dots that means that they're excitatory glutamate and glutamate in the brain. Its

51:08 is to excite of the south is polarized to de polarize this neuron to

51:13 this neuro more excited to make this fire an action potential and communicate the

51:20 that the glue. Dramaturgical synopses excited her synopsis A lot of times they

51:24 it's a plus gloss positive charge, positive charge. Fire, fire fire

51:33 same neurons will also be receiving. synopsis which stands for gamma immuno butyric

51:42 . It's a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in brain. The function of Gaba is

51:48 hyper polarize themselves to add more negative into yourselves to make them silent and

51:56 dampen their activity preventing them from firing forming action productions. And you have

52:05 cells in the brain that can receive 250,000 synopses, the South neurons will

52:15 most of the synopsis along the dendritic . Normally functioning dendritic spines will process

52:24 information, will process, gather urging . This neuron potentially can receive hundreds

52:30 thousands of inputs within a few milliseconds within a few milliseconds this neuron is

52:36 to integrate all of that information. it pluses and minuses and say I'm

52:43 to fire an action potential is like I'm good. I've been I've been

52:47 down. If you have impairment of than dirt response there is no normal

52:54 communication. There's no normal inhibitory Have impaired communication. Synaptic transmission therefore

53:03 to the significant consequences of mental Neurons have four functional regions. You

53:13 an input region. Can come from neuron from the skin. Uh You

53:20 integrated region which is the selma's. have the conduct I'll regions which is

53:25 axons and there are insulated and you the output region and neurons can contact

53:31 neurons. The motor neuron can contact muscle cell and tell the muscle to

53:37 the motor neuron from the spinal There are local into neurons. The

53:43 neurons are the cells that don't project the other networks but rather stay confined

53:50 within a normal network. And most the local inter neurons are Gaba.

53:54 or inhibitory cells. That means they Gaba although there are exceptions to the

54:01 and there are some projection into neurons are not very typical. But most

54:06 the production cells will be excitatory cells most of the inter neurons and stay

54:12 local networks will be inhibitory and they be releasing Gaba. So what are

54:21 ways in which we discover that the actually has different neuronal subtypes? We

54:29 know that there's potentially over 140, different neuronal subtypes in the brain.

54:40 what we discovered through history of neuroscience we've got to decide architect tonic

54:47 We got to the ability to see cells and the processes. We

54:51 The ability with electron microscopes to look the synopsis and see all of the

54:56 elements now. But what it is one neuronal subtype from another is purely

55:03 on morphology. They look different. located in different parts of the

55:07 therefore they will have different functions. there's more to and to classify

55:12 There was a lot of techniques and that were applied and developed to definitively

55:19 these neurons in 200 plus different subtypes the brain. One of them is

55:24 on morphology. Just anatomy. The of the south, you have unit

55:29 south, you have just one north . This is an invertebrate neuron

55:35 south, such as bipolar, South neuron bipolar bipolar south, the retina

55:43 the sensory organ here as the north the south Pole. This is our

55:47 unipolar south sudo, you know, cell has a peripheral axon that goes

55:52 the skin and muscle, it goes the dorsal root ganglion on the dorsal

55:58 and it has a central axon that into the spinal cord. So this

56:03 the dorsal root ganglion cell. You motor neurons and motor neurons are multipolar

56:11 most of the neurons in the brain multipolar. Motor neuron will send from

56:16 ventral side will send it's output onto muscle cells. Okay, parameter sells

56:24 most prevalent excitatory cells in the You will find them in different parts

56:31 the cortex, you'll find them in parts of the sub cortical structures such

56:37 hippocampus, which we already alluded Will hopefully start discussing that today,

56:42 on the time, by the as far as the time goes for

56:46 class Must stop at 12:45. Because when I stop, I'm gonna immediately

56:55 saving the lecture because I'm still running my time a little bit for professor

57:02 me. And you can see it be quite distract fel and if you

57:07 leave somebody five minutes. So this what I'll do. You don't have

57:11 questions. You can email me or me, just wait for me.

57:17 If I freed up. But if stopping, it's because I looked at

57:21 watches, I gotta stop. So for you guys, it will be

57:30 . Maybe you need to set on alarm. Actually, it's okay.

57:38 you have these parameter cells that will they're called parameter cells because there's so

57:44 look like pyramids and they have the . And that the apex. You

57:48 the optical dendrites and at the You have basil done rides coming out

57:53 here you have an accent coming So this parameter cell that hit the

57:57 but you'll find parameter cells in many parts of this room and none

58:02 But was the first one to draw cell. Imagine that kind of fun

58:09 a big, big, big bush work in the south that contained up

58:16 synopsis from a single cell. That's beautiful anatomy. I think it looks

58:22 much like a like a plant like shrub Bush. Uh Some neurons are

58:30 and some neurons will not have the . So the spines, if you

58:35 have the spines in certain subtypes of is not part of the mental recommendation

58:40 certain types of neurons are social excited . Subtypes that will not have

58:47 uh connectivity. So we know the , We know the morphology of the

58:53 . How are these cells connected to other? Are they projection cells which

58:58 they travel long distances. Their accents out of one area of the

59:02 Go to another area or the local neurons and they stay locally and influence

59:06 on the local level. Excitability. they release glutamate or do they release

59:14 ? All of the cells that release are excitatory cells. All of the

59:19 that release Gaba inhibitory cells. But definitively distinguish between different subtypes of

59:27 We need more than morphology. We need the self specific markers or genetic

59:34 that is unique to this particular subset South. But we also need to

59:40 its activity. In this case, the action potential. So the cell

59:45 produce and each neuron can produce a different pattern of action potentials they call

59:54 the dialect of neurons. They all the same language. It's the language

59:58 action potential to like a morse but different subtypes of these neurons will

60:07 a different dialects. Some of them be very fast and others will be

60:11 slow to signaling and communicating that information many different patterns. So for us

60:19 definitively understand what's that type of the we're looking at. We need to

60:24 all of that information. We need have the mythology. We need to

60:27 the excitability, we need to have projection or connectivity patterns on that

60:32 We need to have self specific markers are expressed by that cell and we

60:39 to know the member and properties of cell. Part of the membrane properties

60:43 the frequencies and the patterns of action that neurons can produce. These different

60:49 of cells. So, uh here we're looking at Is I believe it's

61:02 , it's the first publication of the the action potential. So, Put

61:10 in 1939, What's going on in . Yeah, World War II starting

61:20 Europe. The United States doesn't get in 1943. I'll learn directly involved

61:26 much all the time. Um these advancements allow for the fast circuits,

61:35 circuits to be developed to be improved . And british Navy and U.

61:42 . Navy come up with fast fast radar detectors on the eve of

61:50 World War two. And to this , if you go into electrophysiology

61:56 you will find that our equipment is with B. And C. Cables

62:01 B. And C. Stands for naval cable, british Navy cable.

62:08 they're the same fittings that you have the U. S. Navy

62:11 So you don't want to have the ones uh in the same circuits because

62:16 were fighting well at that time with , you didn't want the nazis to

62:21 the same circuits, Somebody you don't to have the same circuits now.

62:28 so uh what this happened in 1939 fast equipment. These fastest telescopes are

62:36 in and through the lives, electrophysiology stab an axon. And they project

62:45 thing on the, what do you with that 1939? What do

62:53 what tools do you have to let world know? You saw an action

62:57 in the wild, you actually have Polaroid camera. So you put a

63:02 camera over the screen of the you just captured the first action

63:08 This very fast milliseconds. That's why circuits needed to be fast in

63:13 This action potential is 1 to 2 . That means you need to sample

63:18 . One millisecond is what is 1/1000 1/2. So in order to visualize

63:25 , you need to sample something that faster, one that 1000 times per

63:32 or faster than one kilohertz. And they do that have a Polaroid to

63:38 a picture of that. How do tell the world you did it?

63:43 no email, there's no uh telegraph , right? But you can't really

63:52 an image. Um So you take black and white copies of that picture

64:00 you send it to the reviewers to at it and then they will publish

64:06 in a magazine where you're happy now , black and white pictures being

64:11 Uh So you send these pictures out you also have to write the paper

64:19 your work experiments hypothesis the results. . There's no computers. So you

64:29 to a typewriter and you tie one will photocopy that page. What happens

64:37 you mess up? There's no control . Start over. If you if

64:44 messed up a little bit, you , maybe it's wide out. But

64:48 you and if you messed up in middle it over the end of the

64:52 and it's a big mess up. you know after we do the whole

64:55 after we read type on the they just think about the determination for

65:02 to prove to the world that I an action potential without having all of

65:06 tools that we have around ourselves now communicating that information really fast and convincing

65:12 and we are right or wrong or else, we can do stuff

65:23 So um This is the Hippocampus and only four minutes but I have to

65:32 it. This is the part of brain that will study throughout this course

65:38 we'll talk about it multiple times. a part of the brain. Today

65:42 going to introduce to you is is to as R. K. Cortex

65:46 arche cortex because it has three dominant of island stratum and stratum organs.

65:54 the campus in the brain as part the limbic system, it's involved in

66:00 formation, memory, recall, emotional and emotional memory and the memory of

66:07 processes is semantic memory which is facts, names, places and

66:14 There are other types of memories in is a procedural memory, physical memory

66:19 that's mediated by another structure, mostly cerebellum in the back of the brain

66:24 procedural memories. So if the campuses memories of semantic memory is really how

66:31 live our lives. Um the Bold brain effect. And it would have

66:39 of the holzmann brain affect anybody using , bozeman brain. The fact is

66:46 everything we experience. And we'll see just things that are virtual reality around

66:53 in a box. And that's actually because sometimes two people will remember the

66:58 situation in a different way and have different feeling, emotional feeling about the

67:03 situation, but they were the same . Something happened, there was something

67:08 physically factually there and two people may away, but within minutes having a

67:15 different interpretation of what happened. so anyways, so what happened?

67:23 just make it up? Who is , who is wrong? So just

67:27 up into that, the ball Zeman effects. It's quite interesting because it

67:31 about randomness and randomness and universe and , maybe potentially long period of

67:39 the system's complex systems and prefer to random can become something organized like a

67:45 bang of potentially. And so this is archaic cortex is archaic cortex,

67:51 three layer structure, it's called our and not neocortex. Neocortex is a

67:57 letter structure. So archaic cortex is to become something else. Everything in

68:02 brains and bodies over time evolution, to technologies, environment is going

68:09 it's trying to become something else, trying to develop into something more complex

68:14 adapt to the environment we live So hippocampus having these three different players

68:22 a very interesting structure. It has excitatory cells that are glued in itself

68:27 a projection cells that are going to out of the hippocampus and connect into

68:32 areas of the brain. And 90% these projection excitatory cells live in the

68:38 layer. That's why it's called strategy a dollar of parameters Selway. But

68:43 only two subtypes of these excitatory cells their distinguished not by their location,

68:48 by their morphology, not by their and action potentials by the specific marker

68:55 IV expressed in the north. And is how we distinguish them. Silent

68:59 . Pretty boring, pretty standard. excitement and the circuit comes from the

69:05 of the inhibitory cells. And so 21 numbers that you're seeing here up

69:09 here at different subtypes inhibitory cells. are local inter neurons that release Gaba

69:17 inhibitory local interventions. So when we back on thursday I will explain to

69:23 how this circuit inhibit the engineers control activity of this excited, very self

69:29 will be projecting and communicating that information the adjacent networks. And we'll get

69:36 to the functionality and the dialects of south where I'm gonna indicate how some

69:43 these neurons stock. And I'm gonna you some real talking neurons that we

69:47 in the lab to see you all thursday. Thank you everybody on

69:52 Uh I'm about to start taking the

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