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Fujii, S. et al.

S. Fujii, Y. Yamazaki, Y. Kuroda, K. Mikoshiba,

Involvement of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors in the bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced in hippocampal CA1 neurons by 1-10 Hz low-frequency stimulation.

In the present study, both potentiation and depression of the synaptic response were induced in hippocampal CA1 neurons by systematically varying the frequency of low frequency afferent stimulation (LFS) between 0.5 and 25 Hz and the pulse number between 40 and 1000. The input-response relationship for CA1 synapses showed that LFS at a higher frequency or with a smaller pulse number increased the magnitude of potentiation of the synaptic response by increasing the contribution of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) to induction of potentiation. One possible mechanism for this bidirectional plasticity was that specific patterns of LFS differentially activate a uniform receptor population in producing depression or potentiation of synaptic responses. However, a pharmacological study indicated that, despite their opposite effects, both the synaptic depression induced by LFS at 1 Hz and the synaptic potentiation induced by LFS at 10 Hz were triggered by co-activation of NMDARs and mGluRs at CA1 synapses. We suggest that activation of protein kinase C or inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors, both coupled to group 1 mGluRs, is involved in the bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced in hippocampal CA1 neurons by 1-10 Hz LFS.[1]

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Involvement of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors in the bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced in hippocampal CA1 neurons by 1-10 Hz low-frequency stimulation. Fujii, S., Yamazaki, Y., Kuroda, Y., Mikoshiba, K. Neuroscience (2010) [Pubmed]

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