The locust frontal ganglion: a central pattern generator network controlling foregut rhythmic motor patterns
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: ayali{at}post.tau.ac.il)
Accepted 14 June 2002
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Key words: desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, central pattern generator, frontal ganglion, neuromodulation
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Introduction |
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In the locust, the frontal ganglion (FG) is part of the stomatogastric
nervous system (STNS). The FG lies in the forehead, on the dorsal side of the
pharynx, in front of the brain (Fig.
1A). It is a small ganglion connected to the tritocerebrum of the
brain by the paired frontal connectives (FC;
Fig. 1B). Posteriorly, a
recurrent nerve (RN) passes from the FG along the pharynx to the hypocerebral
ganglion (HG; Fig. 1B), which
is closely associated with the corpora cardiaca. These and other three pairs
of efferent nerves (the anterior, median and posterior nerves; APN, MPN and
PPN respectively) branch onto the dilator muscles of the gut in a rostrum to
caudal order, making the FG the major source of foregut muscles innervation
(Fig. 1B; Allum, 1973;
Aubele and Klemm, 1977
). To
date, no studies have examined the neural control of foregut peristalsis and
the role of the FG in generating motor patterns associated with locust foregut
movements. Descriptions of the fine structure and neuronal organisation of the
FG in locusts are also very scarce (e.g.
Aubele and Klemm, 1977
).
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We report here on a series of experiments that demonstrate the presence of a CPG network in the FG of the locust Schistocerca gregaria. Our findings, described in this and the accompanying paper, provide insights into the neural basis, control and neuro-endocrine modulation of two fundamental behaviours in the life of locusts: feeding and moulting.
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Materials and methods |
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Saline and chemicals
Locust saline contained 147 mmol l-1 NaCl, 10 mmol
l-1 KCl, 4 mmol l-1 CaCl2, 3 mmol
l-1 NaOH, 10 mmol l-1 Hepes, pH 7.2-7.4
(Abrams and Pearson, 1982;
Penzlin, 1985
). All salts were
obtained from Frutarom Ltd (Haifa, Israel).
Histology and anatomy
In order to examine the structure and cellular composition of the locust
frontal ganglion, whole heads from newly emerged adults were fixed in aqueous
Bouin's fixative, embedded in paraffin, sectioned at 8 µm, and stained with
Hematoxylin and Eosin.
Physiology
Locusts were anaesthetised in CO2. The anterior parts of the
locust STNS were easily accessed by opening a window in the head cuticle,
cutting out most of the frons, and clearing fat tissue and air sacs. Foregut
movements were observed or monitored by a force transducer attached to the gut
wall. The activity of a specific gut dilator muscle was recorded, using fine
(125-175 µm) silver wire electrodes insulated to their tip. The force
transducer output or muscle activity recordings were accompanied by
extracellular recordings from various FG nerves using silver wire hook
electrodes that were electrically insulated with white petroleum jel
(Vaseline).
For the in vitro preparation, the FG and nerves leaving it were accessed as above, dissected out, pinned in a Petri dish lined with Sylgard (Dow Corning, Midland, MI, USA), and constantly superfused with locust saline at 26-27°C. Extracellular recordings were made with bipolar stainless-steel pin electrodes. The recording site was insulated from the bath with white petroleum gel.
Haemolymph was drawn with a pipette from a puncture made in the membrane at the base of the metathoracic leg of the chosen donor (see Results for characteristics of the donors), and applied directly on the FG to test modulatory effects. The FG pattern was tested before, during and after 10 min of application, as well as after at least 30-min washout.
Data were recorded using a 4-channel differential amplifier (Model 1700 A-M Systems), played back in real time and stored on the computer using an A-D board (Digidata 1200, Axon instruments) and Axoscope software (Axon instruments).
Data analysis
Burst profiles and phase diagrams were obtained as follows. Peak detection
was performed on each signal, yielding a set of peak times and corresponding
peak amplitudes (ti, ai). From these,
cumulative peak amplitudes were calculated
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Plots of the cumulative peak amplitudes as a function of time
A(t), where
AiA(ti), were used as
a visual tool for detecting changes in the intensity of activity. In
particular, this measure, combining event density and peak amplitudes, is
especially well suited for detecting burst onset times. A sharp rise in slope
corresponds to a sudden increase in activity. For convenience, cumulative
amplitudes were normalised A(t)
A(t)/A(T), where T is
the estimated time at which pre-burst activity was regained. Thus, only
relative changes in burst intensity were examined. The burst onset times were
determined from plots of cumulative amplitudes by linear extrapolation. To
quantitatively characterise burst progress in the different nerves, FC burst
onset times were used as temporal offsets for superimposing the cumulative
amplitude plots for a series of consecutive bursts. For each burst, FC, MPN
and PPN cumulative amplitudes at the offset time were used as the
corresponding vertical offsets. The characteristic burst profiles,
(t), were then obtained by averaging cumulative
amplitude plots over different bursts. For each nerve, the following burst
parameters could be extracted from the characteristic profiles: burst onset
time, end time, pre- and post-burst inhibition and activity recovery time. In
addition, the derivative of the cumulative amplitude plots d/dt
(t) corresponds to the burst energy density function and
provides a characteristic burst envelope. All analysis methods were developed
by one of us (N.C.) under a Fortran and MatLab (Mathworks) environments.
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Results |
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According to a previous electron microscopy study
(Allum, 1973) the recurrent
nerve and the frontal connectives contains circa 2200 and 1200 axon
profiles, respectively, as counted in a section made close to their ganglion
origin. The smaller nerves have far fewer fibers (32 axon profiles counted in
a PPN section). Staining ganglion neurons by back-filling the various nerves
indicated that only a small fraction of all these nerve fibers originate in
neurons located within the ganglion (data not shown).
The frontal ganglion controls foregut dilators
In order to reconfirm previous work regarding the role of the frontal
ganglion in generating foregut movements (see Discussion), we monitored
foregut movements while recording the motor output of the FG. In agreement
with early results (Allum,
1973, and references within), foregut peristaltic activity was
never observed when we either dissected the FG out, or cut all the FG efferent
nerves. Fig. 2A demonstrates
fixed synchronisation between bursts of action potentials recorded
extracellularly from the recurrent nerve (RN), and foregut dilation monitored
by a force transducer attached to the oesophagus. This result was confirmed by
recordings from the FC or PPN. Activity in the third dorsal dilator of the
pharynx (muscle 37) could be correlated to bursts of action potentials
recorded extracellularly from the PPN (Fig.
2B). We only had limited access to the gut while recording from
the nerves, so could not correlate movements of different areas of the foregut
to activity recorded on the different nerves.
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The frontal ganglion central pattern generator
In an in vitro preparation, isolated from all descending and
sensory inputs, the FG generated spontaneous rhythmic activity. Over 90% of
all in vitro preparations displayed a consistent and robust FG
rhythmic pattern that lasted for several hours (cycle period 15.8±5.9
s, mean ± S.D. of 48 preparations, 10 cycles per preparation). In many
cases rhythmic activity was not obtained immediately but emerged slowly and
gradually (Fig. 3). We found
the time of first appearance of bursting activity to be strongly related to
the physiological state of the donor locust. In preparations from locusts with
a very full foregut and crop at the time of dissection, or from non-feeding
larvae close to ecdysis, a robust pattern emerged after up to 2 h of saline
superfusion (1.5±0.6 h, N=10;
Fig. 3). The rhythm was the
fastest to appear (10 min or less) when the ganglion was dissected out from a
locust just a few minutes after it had begun feeding. Accordingly the
application of haemolymph collected from animals in which the alimentary canal
was replete throughout its length, strongly inhibited the FG motor output
(five different preparations, Fig.
4A). The effects of haemolymph application varied from total
inhibition, as in the example shown in Fig.
4A, to inhibition of the bursting activity only. Haemolymph
collected from non-feeding pre-moult larvae also inhibited FG rhythmic
activity, always giving rise to arrhythmic activity as demonstrated in
Fig. 4B (five out of five
different FG preparations and fifth instar larva haemolymph donors).
Application of haemolymph collected from fifth instar larva just after the
initiation of feeding had no inhibitory effect whatsoever (five different
preparations, Fig. 4C).
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The frontal ganglion rhythm
Spontaneous multi-unit bursts of action potentials could be recorded from
all the FG efferent nerves (Fig.
5). Recordings from the bilateral pairs of nerves (FC nerves, MPN
and PPN) revealed that they all exhibited fully synchronised activity
(including both bursts and inter-burst activity; data not shown). The activity
recorded on the APN (three preparations, not shown) was consistent with our
observations as described here for the other nerves. APN recordings were rare
since this nerve is exceptionally thin and delicate. In the recurrent nerve,
bursting activity was often masked by arrhythmic background spiking activity
(in four out of ten recordings; not shown).
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Simultaneous extracellular recordings from the different FG efferent nerves revealed fixed-phase relations in burst onset times, consistent with a rostrum-to-caudal innervation sequence of foregut muscles (i.e. the order FC, MPN, PPN, in efferent nerve bursts, Fig. 5B). A similar pattern in vivo would have resulted in a peristaltic anterior-to-posterior wave of muscle contraction along the locust foregut.
As shown in the cumulative amplitude plots of Figs 5 and 6, each nerve displayed a characteristic burst profile. The temporal delineation of burst progression, as recorded extracellularly, is summarised in Fig. 7. In all our preparations we have recorded at least one of the FC nerves accompanied by simultaneous recordings of minor nerves, MPN or PPN or both. Thus the FC burst was used for alignment and normalization (see figure legend for details). The burst onset appears in the form of intensified activity in the FC nerve (either sudden or gradual), characterised by increased spike density as well as spike amplitudes. This early FC nerve activity typically coincides with strong inhibition on the PPN. About one third of our PPN recordings showed an additional early unit, coinciding with the early units in the FC nerve; all other PPN units were still strongly suppressed at this phase (Fig. 6). Bursting activity followed in the MPN and finally in the PPN. In all nerves, bursting typically ended with a gradual decay of activity, with MPN activity ending first or concomitantly with FC bursting, and PPN activity ending with a slight delay thereafter (Fig. 7). All nerves exhibited strong post-burst inhibition and a slow recovery of inter-burst levels of activity (with the PPN recovering first 3-5 s after the onset of the burst, followed by the MPN, and finally by FC nerves, which typically displayed the slowest recovery of activity, taking as long as 15 s; Fig. 7).
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Burst profiles from different experiments were found to be robust and independent of the level of inter-burst activity and of cycle periods (Fig. 7C). In addition the temporal relations between different bursting units (whether recorded on the same or different nerves) were generally conserved. Thus, while burst durations were relatively robust (1.8±0.5 s in FC nerves, and 1.3±0.3 s for MPN and PPN), the fraction of burst to cycle time varied drastically (e.g. 2-33% in FC nerve bursts, N=15). In other words, converting Fig. 7C to a conventional (linear) phase diagram (by normalising the time axis by burst cycle periods) would yield a smeared, highly variable burst profile, in sharp contrast to the robust temporal description. This result demonstrates that during a burst cycle, the phase increases nonlinearly with time. In effect, this description translates to a high phase velocity during the burst itself, and much slower phase increase in the ensuing inter-burst phase. Figs 5,6,7 were prepared from the recordings most suitable for the type of analysis made. It is important to note that the results of all of the experiments performed were examined for consistency with the data presented.
In addition to the above extracellular nerve recordings, which capture the motoneuron activity in the various efferent nerves, intracellular recordings are needed to elucidate the structure of the underlying neural network, to locate and to characterise the key pattern-generating neurons. In fact, probing many FG neurons with an intracellular pipette in a number of preparations revealed that the large majority of neurons do not show oscillations of membrane potential or any rhythmic pattern of activity, and are either silent or fire tonically. Experimental manipulations with the membrane potential of these cells (strong stimulation and hyperpolarization; data not shown) suggested that only a small number of the FG neurons are part of the CPG circuit. A small number of the recorded neurons did exhibit rhythmic activity. Fig. 8 shows examples of rhythmic inhibition or bursting potentials, as demonstrated by intracellular recordings from FG neurons, while a robust rhythm was recorded extracellularly. The neuron shown in Fig. 8A corresponds to the large units recorded extracellularly on the FC nerve.
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Discussion |
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We correlated the FG motor output with foregut movements in vivo,
thus confirming earlier reports on the FG control of the foregut. In the
accompanying paper (Zilberstein and Ayali,
2002) we investigate the FG motor patterns in vivo and
their role in the control of multiple foregut behaviours.
The locust FG contains around one hundred neurons. Are all these neurons
members of the pattern generating network(s)? Many of the FG neurons are
neurosecretory cells containing a variety of neuropeptides
(Miyoshi and Endo, 1998;
Maestro et al., 1998
; Duve et
al., 1999
,
2000
). Aubele and Klemm
(1977
) described 19 neurons
located in the FG that send their axons to innervate foregut muscles
via the FC and FC 1. In most CPG systems investigated the
pattern-generating circuit consists of interneurons, though in some
preparations the motor neurons themselves participate in generating the rhythm
(e.g. the STNS of Crustacea) (for references, see
Marder and Bucher, 2001
). The
rather limited number of rhythmic units in our FG nerve recordings, and our
preliminary intracellular survey of FG neurons in which the majority of
neurons proved to be either silent or tonically active, are both consistent
with the idea that a relatively small number of FG neurons take part in the FG
rhythmic motor pattern. However, this point awaits further characterisation of
the CPG.
The concept of neuromodulation is central to our current understanding of
central pattern generation. Our results suggest that the FG CPG is modulated
in vivo; a humoral factor affecting foregut activity by inhibiting
the FG rhythmic output is present in the haemolymph of feeding animals, when
the entire gut is stuffed with food and the foregut should stop pushing its
content backwards, or in pre-moult larvae that do not feed at all. Hence, in
our haemolymph application experiments, rhythmic activity was very slow to
appear in the isolated FG when the physiological state of the donor animal was
one of the above. It is nowadays clear that the nervous system can alter the
properties of CPGs, via both descending and sensory inputs, to elicit
many different motor patterns (e.g.
Harris-Warrick and Marder,
1991; Grillner et al.,
1994
; Harris-Warrick,
1994
; Marder et al.,
1994
; Ayali and Harris-Warrick,
1999
).
Recent years have witnessed rekindled interest in the insect STNS. It has
been shown to be an important source of neuropeptides that take part in
controlling gut movements in Orthoptern and Lepidopteran insects (Duve et al.,
1995,
1999
,
2000
;
Miyoshi and Endo, 1998
;
Maestro et al., 1998
). The
insect STNS is also emerging as a model system for nervous system development
(e.g. Copenhaver and Taghert,
1989a
,b
,
1991
;
Ganfornina et al., 1996
;
Hartenstein, 1997
;
Forjanic et al., 1997
;
Boleli et al., 1998
;
Gonzalez-Gaitan and Jackle,
2000
). Surprisingly, with the notable exception of Miles and
Booker (1994
,
1998
), little research has
been conducted on the STNS neural control of gut motor patterns. The current
study will help to fill this gap, and provide the necessary physiological
basis for this promising model system.
From an evolutionary point of view, it is intriguing to compare the
relatively unexplored insect system to the STNS of Crustacea, specifically to
the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) of lobster and crabs
(Harris-Warrick et al., 1992).
The latter has been established as a leading model system for the study of
pattern-generating circuits. It has fewer neurons (approx. 30) and, unlike our
system, the STG requires chemical modulation in order to exhibit its rhythmic
motor output. Further research is needed to elucidate other differences as
well as similarities between the two systems.
In summary, our work presents a novel CPG network in the locust FG, and the motor patterns it generates. Together with the adjacent paper, this is part of an investigation into the regulation of motor patterns associated with locust feeding and the control of moult-related gut motor patterns, and thus to fill a gap in our knowledge and understanding of this economically important pest insect.
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