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Butcher JB, Sims RE, Ngum NM, Bazzari AH, Jenkins SI, King M, Hill EJ, Nagel DA, Fox K, Parri HR, Glazewski S. A requirement for astrocyte IP3R2 signaling for whisker experience-dependent depression and homeostatic upregulation in the mouse barrel cortex. Front Cell Neurosci 2022; 16:905285. [PMID: 36090792 PMCID: PMC9452848 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2022.905285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Changes to sensory experience result in plasticity of synapses in the cortex. This experience-dependent plasticity (EDP) is a fundamental property of the brain. Yet, while much is known about neuronal roles in EDP, very little is known about the role of astrocytes. To address this issue, we used the well-described mouse whiskers-to-barrel cortex system, which expresses a number of forms of EDP. We found that all-whisker deprivation induced characteristic experience-dependent Hebbian depression (EDHD) followed by homeostatic upregulation in L2/3 barrel cortex of wild type mice. However, these changes were not seen in mutant animals (IP3R2–/–) that lack the astrocyte-expressed IP3 receptor subtype. A separate paradigm, the single-whisker experience, induced potentiation of whisker-induced response in both wild-type (WT) mice and IP3R2–/– mice. Recordings in ex vivo barrel cortex slices reflected the in vivo results so that long-term depression (LTD) could not be elicited in slices from IP3R2–/– mice, but long-term potentiation (LTP) could. Interestingly, 1 Hz stimulation inducing LTD in WT paradoxically resulted in NMDAR-dependent LTP in slices from IP3R2–/– animals. The LTD to LTP switch was mimicked by acute buffering astrocytic [Ca2+]i in WT slices. Both WT LTD and IP3R2–/– 1 Hz LTP were mediated by non-ionotropic NMDAR signaling, but only WT LTD was P38 MAPK dependent, indicating an underlying mechanistic switch. These results demonstrate a critical role for astrocytic [Ca2+]i in several EDP mechanisms in neocortex.
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- John B. Butcher
- School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Neural Tissue Engineering Group, Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine (ISTM), Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Aston Medical School, Aston Medical Research Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: H. Rheinallt Parri,
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- School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom
- Stanislaw Glazewski,
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Whisker Deprivation Drives Two Phases of Inhibitory Synapse Weakening in Layer 4 of Rat Somatosensory Cortex. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148227. [PMID: 26840956 PMCID: PMC4740487 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 01/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Inhibitory synapse development in sensory neocortex is experience-dependent, with sustained sensory deprivation yielding fewer and weaker inhibitory synapses. Whether this represents arrest of synapse maturation, or a more complex set of processes, is unclear. To test this, we measured the dynamics of inhibitory synapse development in layer 4 of rat somatosensory cortex (S1) during continuous whisker deprivation from postnatal day 7, and in age-matched controls. In deprived columns, spontaneous miniature inhibitory postsynaptic currents (mIPSCs) and evoked IPSCs developed normally until P15, when IPSC amplitude transiently decreased, recovering by P16 despite ongoing deprivation. IPSCs remained normal until P22, when a second, sustained phase of weakening began. Delaying deprivation onset by 5 days prevented the P15 weakening. Both early and late phase weakening involved measurable reduction in IPSC amplitude relative to prior time points. Thus, deprivation appears to drive two distinct phases of active IPSC weakening, rather than simple arrest of synapse maturation.
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Greenhill SD, Juczewski K, de Haan AM, Seaton G, Fox K, Hardingham NR. NEURODEVELOPMENT. Adult cortical plasticity depends on an early postnatal critical period. Science 2015; 349:424-7. [PMID: 26206934 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa8481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Development of the cerebral cortex is influenced by sensory experience during distinct phases of postnatal development known as critical periods. Disruption of experience during a critical period produces neurons that lack specificity for particular stimulus features, such as location in the somatosensory system. Synaptic plasticity is the agent by which sensory experience affects cortical development. Here, we describe, in mice, a developmental critical period that affects plasticity itself. Transient neonatal disruption of signaling via the C-terminal domain of "disrupted in schizophrenia 1" (DISC1)—a molecule implicated in psychiatric disorders—resulted in a lack of long-term potentiation (LTP) (persistent strengthening of synapses) and experience-dependent potentiation in adulthood. Long-term depression (LTD) (selective weakening of specific sets of synapses) and reversal of LTD were present, although impaired, in adolescence and absent in adulthood. These changes may form the basis for the cognitive deficits associated with mutations in DISC1 and the delayed onset of a range of psychiatric symptoms in late adolescence.
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF23 3AX, UK
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF23 3AX, UK
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Glazewski S, Barth AL. Stimulus intensity determines experience-dependent modifications in neocortical neuron firing rates. Eur J Neurosci 2014; 41:410-9. [PMID: 25546174 PMCID: PMC4331261 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Revised: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Although subthreshold inputs of neocortical sensory neurons are broadly tuned, the spiking output is more restricted. These subthreshold inputs provide a substrate for stimulus intensity-dependent changes their spiking output, as well as for experience-dependent plasticity to alter firing properties. Here we investigated how different stimulus intensities modified the firing output of individual neurons in layer 2/3 of the mouse barrel cortex. Decreasing stimulus intensity over a 30-fold range lowered the firing rates evoked by principal whisker stimulation and reduced the overall size of the responding ensemble in whisker-undeprived animals. We then examined how these responses were changed after single-whisker experience (SWE). After 7 days of SWE, the mean magnitude of response to spared whisker stimulation at the highest stimulus intensity was not altered. However, lower-intensity whisker stimulation revealed a more than 10-fold increase in mean firing output compared with control animals. Also, under control conditions, only ∽15% of neurons showed any firing at low stimulus intensity, compared with more than 70% of neurons after SWE. However, response changes measured in the immediately surrounding representations were detected only for the highest stimulus intensity. Overall, these data showed that the measurement of experience-dependent changes in the spike output of neocortical neurons was highly dependent upon stimulus intensity.
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- Stanislaw Glazewski
- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA; School of Life Sciences and Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK
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Alwis DS, Rajan R. Environmental enrichment causes a global potentiation of neuronal responses across stimulus complexity and lamina of sensory cortex. Front Cell Neurosci 2013; 7:124. [PMID: 23964199 PMCID: PMC3737482 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 07/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Enriched social and physical housing produces many molecular, anatomical, electrophysiological and behavior benefits even in adult animals. Much less is known of its effects on cortical electrophysiology, especially in how sensory cortex encodes the altered environment, and extant studies have generally been restricted to neurons in input laminae in sensory cortex. To extend the understanding of how an enriched environment alters the way in which cortex views the world, we investigated enrichment-induced changes in neuronal encoding of sensory stimuli across all laminae of the rat barrel cortex receiving input from the face whisker tactile system. Animals were housed in Enriched (n = 13) or Isolated housing (n = 13) conditions for 8 weeks before extracellular recordings were obtained from barrel cortex in response to simple whisker deflections and whisker motions modeling movements seen in awake animals undertaking a variety of different tasks. Enrichment resulted in increases in neuronal responses to all stimuli, ranging from those modeling exploratory behavior through to discrimination behaviors. These increases were seen throughout the cortex from supragranular layers through to input Layer 4 and for some stimuli, in infragranular Layer 5. The observed enrichment-induced effect is consistent with the postulate that enrichment causes shift in cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance, and we demonstrate this is greatest in supragranular layers. However, we also report that the effects are non-selective for stimulus parameters across a range of stimuli except for one modeling the likely use of whiskers by the rats in the enriched housing.
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- Dasuni S Alwis
- Department of Physiology, Monash University Clayton, VIC, Australia
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Rewiring of afferent fibers in the somatosensory thalamus of mice caused by peripheral sensory nerve transection. J Neurosci 2012; 32:6917-30. [PMID: 22593060 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5008-11.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The remodeling of neural circuitry and changes in synaptic efficacy after peripheral sensory nerve injury are considered the basis for functional reorganization in the brain, including changes in receptive fields. However, when or how the remodeling occurs is largely unknown. Here we show the rapid rewiring of afferent fibers in the mature ventral posteromedial thalamic nucleus of mice after transection of the peripheral whisker sensory nerve, using the whole-cell voltage-clamp technique. Transection induced the recruitment of afferent fibers to a thalamic relay neuron within 5-6 d of injury. The rewiring was pathway specific, but not sensory experience dependent or peripheral nerve activity dependent. The newly recruited fibers mediated small EPSCs, and postsynaptic GluA2-containing AMPA receptors were selectively upregulated at the new synapses. This rapid and pathway-specific remodeling of thalamic circuitry may be an initial step in the massive axonal reorganization at supraspinal levels, which occurs months or years after peripheral sensory nerve injury.
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Dachtler J, Hardingham NR, Glazewski S, Wright NF, Blain EJ, Fox K. Experience-dependent plasticity acts via GluR1 and a novel neuronal nitric oxide synthase-dependent synaptic mechanism in adult cortex. J Neurosci 2011; 31:11220-30. [PMID: 21813683 PMCID: PMC3508401 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1590-11.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2011] [Revised: 04/21/2011] [Accepted: 06/08/2011] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Synaptic plasticity directs development of the nervous system and is thought to underlie memory storage in adult animals. A great deal of our current understanding of the role of AMPA receptors in synaptic plasticity comes from studies on developing cortex and cell cultures. In the present study, we instead focus on plasticity in mature neurons in the neocortex of adult animals. We find that the glutamate receptor 1 (GluR1) subunit of the AMPA receptor is involved in experience-dependent plasticity in adult cortex in vivo and that it acts in addition to neuronal nitric oxide synthase (αNOS1), an enzyme that produces the rapid synaptic signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO). Potentiation of the spared whisker response, following single whisker experience, is ∼33% less in GluR1-null mutants than in wild types. We found that the remaining plasticity depended on αNOS1. Potentiation was reduced by >42% in the single αNOS1-null mutants and completely abolished in GluR1/αNOS1 double-knock-out mice. However, potentiation in GluR1/NOS3 double knock-outs occurred at similar levels to that seen in GluR1 single knock-outs. Synaptic plasticity in the layer IV to II/III pathway in vitro mirrored the results in vivo, in that LTP was present in GluR1/NOS3 double-knock-out mice but not in the GluR1/αNOS1 animals. While basal levels of NO in cortical slices depended on both αNOS1 and NOS3, NMDA receptor-dependent NO release only depended on αNOS1 and not on NOS3. These findings demonstrate that αNOS1 acts in concert with GluR1 to produce experience-dependent plasticity in the neocortex.
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- James Dachtler
- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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Wilbrecht L, Holtmaat A, Wright N, Fox K, Svoboda K. Structural plasticity underlies experience-dependent functional plasticity of cortical circuits. J Neurosci 2010; 30:4927-32. [PMID: 20371813 PMCID: PMC2910869 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.6403-09.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2009] [Revised: 02/21/2010] [Accepted: 03/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The stabilization of new spines in the barrel cortex is enhanced after whisker trimming, but its relationship to experience-dependent plasticity is unclear. Here we show that in wild-type mice, whisker potentiation and spine stabilization are most pronounced for layer 5 neurons at the border between spared and deprived barrel columns. In homozygote alphaCaMKII-T286A mice, which lack experience-dependent potentiation of responses to spared whiskers, there is no increase in new spine stabilization at the border between barrel columns after whisker trimming. Our data provide a causal link between new spine synapses and plasticity of adult cortical circuits and suggest that alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation plays a role in the stabilization but not formation of new spines.
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- Linda Wilbrecht
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA.
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Sheibani V, Shamsizadeh A, Afarinesh MR, Rezvani ME. Neonatal capsaicin treatment modulates experience-dependent plasticity in the rat barrel cortex. J Comp Neurol 2010; 518:3427-38. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.22384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Lee LJ, Chen WJ, Chuang YW, Wang YC. Neonatal whisker trimming causes long-lasting changes in structure and function of the somatosensory system. Exp Neurol 2009; 219:524-32. [PMID: 19619534 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2009] [Revised: 07/10/2009] [Accepted: 07/11/2009] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The significance of very early experience in the maturation of whisker-to-barrel system comes primarily from neonatal whisker or infraorbital nerve lesion studies conducted prior to the formation of cortical barrels. However, the surgical procedures damage the sensory pathway; it is difficult to examine the consequence after the recovery of sensory deprivation. To address this issue, we performed a neonatal whisker-cut (WC) paradigm and examined their behavioral performance during P30 to P35. With fully regrown whiskers, the rats that had whisker cut from the date of birth (P0) to postnatal day (P) 3 (WC 0-3) exhibited shorter crossable distance in the gap-crossing test. However, the rats had whisker cut at P3 only (WC 3) behaved normally in this test, suggesting the critical period for the development of whisker-specific tactile function is P0-P3, agreed with previous findings demonstrated by lesion methods. In the WC 0-3 rats, the cortical areas in the layer IV somatosensory region in relation to the trimmed whiskers were enlarged and the spiny stellate neurons within had larger dendritic span and greater spine density. Furthermore, more long and multiple-head spines were found in these rats. With abnormal structure and function in the somatosensory system, the WC 0-3 rats showed higher explorative activity and more frequent social interactions. Our results have demonstrated that the early tactile deprivation, similar to early visual deprivation, perturbed the developmental program of the brain and affected later behaviors in various aspects.
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- Li-Jen Lee
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Drew PJ, Feldman DE. Intrinsic signal imaging of deprivation-induced contraction of whisker representations in rat somatosensory cortex. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 19:331-48. [PMID: 18515797 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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In classical sensory cortical map plasticity, the representation of deprived or underused inputs contracts within cortical sensory maps, whereas spared inputs expand. Expansion of spared inputs occurs preferentially into nearby cortical columns representing temporally correlated spared inputs, suggesting that expansion involves correlation-based learning rules at cross-columnar synapses. It is unknown whether deprived representations contract in a similar anisotropic manner, which would implicate similar learning rules and sites of plasticity. We briefly deprived D-row whiskers in 20-day-old rats, so that each deprived whisker had deprived (D-row) and spared (C- and E-row) neighbors. Intrinsic signal optical imaging revealed that D-row deprivation weakened and contracted the functional representation of deprived D-row whiskers in L2/3 of somatosensory (S1) cortex. Spared whisker representations did not strengthen or expand, indicating that D-row deprivation selectively engages the depression component of map plasticity. Contraction of deprived whisker representations was spatially uniform, with equal withdrawal from spared and deprived neighbors. Single-unit electrophysiological recordings confirmed these results, and showed substantial weakening of responses to deprived whiskers in layer 2/3 of S1, and modest weakening in L4. The observed isotropic contraction of deprived whisker representations during D-row deprivation is consistent with plasticity at intracolumnar, rather than cross-columnar, synapses.
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- Patrick J Drew
- Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0357, USA
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Shamsizadeh A, Sheibani V, Arabzadeh S, Afarinesh MR, Farazifard R, Noorbakhsh SM, Fathollahi Y. Single whisker experience started on postnatal days 0, 5 or 8 changes temporal characteristics of response integration in layers IV and V of rat barrel cortex neurons. Brain Res Bull 2007; 74:29-36. [PMID: 17683786 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2006] [Revised: 03/14/2007] [Accepted: 04/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neonatal single whisker experience changes the response properties of spared barrel neurons to deflections of principal and adjacent whiskers. However little is known about the temporal characteristics of the paired whisker inputs. To address this issue we used computer controlled mechanical displacement of paired whiskers in control and plucked animals (plucking of all whiskers but D2 started at 0, 5 and 8 postnatal days). The principal whisker (PW) and its caudal adjacent whisker (AW) were deflected simultaneously or serially at different inter-stimulus intervals (10, 20, 30, 50 and 100 ms). Neuronal responses were recorded in D2 spared barrel both in layers IV and V. In the control group, combined deflection of AW prior to PW led to suppression of ON and OFF responses to PW deflection both in layers IV and V. The magnitude of this suppression was strongly dependent on the inter-stimulus intervals (ISIs). At almost all tested ISIs, whisker plucking from P0, P5 and P8 weakened suppressive interactions in layers IV and V barrel neurons for both ON and OFF responses. The most decrease in inhibitory interactions was observed in P5 plucked animals. Principal whisker-evoked ON responses were increased only in P0 plucked animals both in layers IV and V. AW-evoked ON responses are decreased in P5 plucked animals in layer IV. The available data suggest that sensory experience can modulate temporal aspects of response integration and receptive field properties of layers IV and V neurons in barrel cortex. These changes have different critical periods.
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- Ali Shamsizadeh
- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Glazewski S, Benedetti BL, Barth AL. Ipsilateral whiskers suppress experience-dependent plasticity in the barrel cortex. J Neurosci 2007; 27:3910-20. [PMID: 17409256 PMCID: PMC6672419 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0181-07.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Each cerebral hemisphere processes sensory input from both sides of the body, but the impact of this convergence on shaping and modifying receptive field properties remains controversial. Here we investigated the effect of chronic deprivation of ipsilateral sensory whiskers on receptive field plasticity in primary somatosensory cortex. In the absence of ipsilateral whiskers, cortical receptive fields were significantly larger than control after 1 week. Removal of all but a single whisker from one side of the face [single-whisker experience (SWE)] has been shown to result in the expansion of the cortical area responding to the spared whisker. We compared the effects of SWE in the presence (SWE-unilateral) and absence (SWE-bilateral) of ipsilateral whiskers. SWE-bilateral deprivation results in a significant increase in neuronal responses to spared whisker stimulation both in its cognate barrel column and in adjacent, surrounding barrel columns compared with control and SWE-unilateral deprived animals. Surround receptive fields in deprived columns were maintained in SWE-bilateral treated animals but depressed in SWE-unilateral animals. The increase in spared whisker responses was progressive with longer deprivation periods. These data show that ipsilateral whiskers can constrain receptive field size in the barrel cortex.
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- Stanislaw Glazewski
- Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine and School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom, and
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- Department of Biological Sciences and
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Biological Sciences and
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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Shetty P, Shoykhet M, Simons DJ. Whisker plucking alters responses of rat trigeminal ganglion neurons. Somatosens Mot Res 2004; 20:233-8. [PMID: 14675962 DOI: 10.1080/08990220310001622951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Whisker plucking in developing and adult rats provides a convenient method of temporarily altering tactile input for the purposes of studying experience-dependent plasticity in the somatosensory cortex. Yet, a comprehensive examination of the effect of whisker plucking on the response properties of whisker follicle-innervating trigeminal ganglion (NVg) neurons is lacking. We used extracellular single unit recordings to examine responses of NVg neurons to controlled whisker stimuli in three groups of animals: (1) rats whose whiskers were plucked from birth for 21 days; (2) rats whose whiskers were plucked once at 21 days of age; and (3) control animals. After at least 3 weeks of whisker re-growth, NVg neurons in plucked rats displayed normal, single whisker receptive fields and could be characterized as slowly (SA) or rapidly adapting (RA). The proportion of SA and RA neurons was unaffected by whisker plucking. Both SA and RA NVg neurons in plucked rats displayed normal response latencies and angular tuning but abnormally large responses to whisker movement onsets and offsets. SA neurons were affected to a greater extent than RA neurons. The effect of whisker plucking was more pronounced in animals whose whiskers were plucked repeatedly during development than in rats whose whiskers were plucked once. Individual neurons in plucked animals displayed abnormal periods of prolonged rhythmic firing following deflection onsets and aberrant bursts of activity during the plateau phase of the stimulus. These results indicate that whisker plucking exerts a long-term effect on responses of trigeminal ganglion neurons to peripheral stimulation.
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- Pranav Shetty
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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Brown CE, Dyck RH. Experience-dependent regulation of synaptic zinc is impaired in the cortex of aged mice. Neuroscience 2003; 119:795-801. [PMID: 12809700 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(03)00292-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Zinc plays an important role in synaptic signaling in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Zinc is sequestered into presynaptic vesicles of subpopulations of glutamatergic neurons and is released by depolarization, in a calcium-dependent manner. As the majority of mechanisms that have been suggested to participate in experience-dependent alterations in synaptic strength in the cerebral cortex implicate signaling by glutamate, it stands to reason that zincergic signaling might also be crucial. Here we show that synaptic zinc is rapidly and dynamically modulated in relation to alterations in sensory input and that this response is highly age-dependent. Juvenile, adult, and aged mice were subjected to whisker removal and levels of staining for synaptic zinc in deprived and non-deprived cortical barrels were quantitatively assessed at post-deprivation times ranging from 3 h to 21 days. In the first 12 h, zinc levels increased slightly, but significantly, in all groups. At later time points, zinc levels increased robustly (23%) in the youngest group by 24 h and remained elevated through 7 days. By contrast, deprivation-induced changes in zinc staining in aged animals, achieved their maximal levels at 12 h (approximately 10%) and steadily declined thereafter. Adult animals revealed a biphasic, intermediate change with time. In all age groups, levels of zinc staining returned to baseline by 21 days after whisker plucking. However, only in juvenile and adult mice did we observe that the level of zinc staining in deprived barrel hollows, was correlated with the length of whiskers as they regrew. Our data suggest that alterations in the regulation of synaptic zinc may be involved with decrements of synaptic plasticity that accompany senescence.
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- C E Brown
- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
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Neocortical long-term potentiation and experience-dependent synaptic plasticity require alpha-calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II autophosphorylation. J Neurosci 2003. [PMID: 12805283 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-11-04428.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Experience-dependent plasticity can be induced in the barrel cortex by removing all but one whisker, leading to potentiation of the neuronal response to the spared whisker. To determine whether this form of potentiation depends on synaptic plasticity, we studied long-term potentiation (LTP) and sensory-evoked potentials in the barrel cortex of alpha-calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (alphaCaMKII)T286A mutant mice. We studied three different forms of LTP induction: theta-burst stimulation, spike pairing, and postsynaptic depolarization paired with low-frequency presynaptic stimulation. None of these protocols produced LTP in alphaCaMKIIT286A mutant mice, although all three were successful in wild-type mice. To study synaptic plasticity in vivo, we measured sensory-evoked potentials in the barrel cortex and found that single-whisker experience selectively potentiated synaptic responses evoked by sensory stimulation of the spared whisker in wild types but not in alphaCaMKIIT286A mice. These results demonstrate that alphaCaMKII autophosphorylation is required for synaptic plasticity in the neocortex, whether induced by a variety of LTP induction paradigms or by manipulation of sensory experience, thereby strengthening the case that the two forms of plasticity are related.
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Takahashi T, Svoboda K, Malinow R. Experience strengthening transmission by driving AMPA receptors into synapses. Science 2003; 299:1585-8. [PMID: 12624270 DOI: 10.1126/science.1079886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 244] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The mechanisms underlying experience-dependent plasticity in the brain may depend on the AMPA subclass of glutamate receptors (AMPA-Rs). We examined the trafficking of AMPA-Rs into synapses in the developing rat barrel cortex. In vivo gene delivery was combined with in vitro recordings to show that experience drives recombinant GluR1, an AMPA-R subunit, into synapses formed between layer 4 and layer 2/3 neurons. Moreover, expression of the GluR1 cytoplasmic tail, a construct that inhibits synaptic delivery of endogenous AMPA-Rs during long-term potentiation, blocked experience-driven synaptic potentiation. In general, synaptic incorporation of AMPA-Rs in vivo conforms to rules identified in vitro and contributes to plasticity driven by natural stimuli in the mammalian brain.
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- Takuya Takahashi
- Jones Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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Allen CB, Celikel T, Feldman DE. Long-term depression induced by sensory deprivation during cortical map plasticity in vivo. Nat Neurosci 2003; 6:291-9. [PMID: 12577061 DOI: 10.1038/nn1012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2002] [Accepted: 01/16/2003] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Cortical map plasticity is thought to involve long-term depression (LTD) of cortical synapses, but direct evidence for LTD during plasticity or learning in vivo is lacking. One putative role for LTD is in the reduction of cortical responsiveness to behaviorally irrelevant or unused sensory stimuli, a common feature of map plasticity. Here we show that whisker deprivation, a manipulation that drives map plasticity in rat somatosensory cortex (S1), induces detectable LTD-like depression at intracortical excitatory synapses between cortical layer 4 (L4) and L2/3 pyramidal neurons. This synaptic depression occluded further LTD, enhanced LTP, was column specific, and was driven in part by competition between active and inactive whiskers. The synaptic locus of LTD and these properties suggest that LTD underlies the reduction of cortical responses to deprived whiskers, a major component of S1 map plasticity.
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- Cara B Allen
- Neurosciences Program, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Fox K, Wallace H, Glazewski S. Is there a thalamic component to experience-dependent cortical plasticity? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2002; 357:1709-15. [PMID: 12626005 PMCID: PMC1693089 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Sensory deprivation and injury to the peripheral nervous system both induce plasticity in the somatosensory system of adult animals, but in different places. While injury induces plasticity at several locations within the ascending somatosensory pathways, sensory deprivation appears only to affect the somatosensory cortex. Experiments have been performed to detect experience-dependent plasticity in thalamic receptive fields, thalamic domain sizes and convergence of thalamic receptive fields onto cortical cells. So far, plasticity has not been detected with sensory deprivation paradigms that cause substantial cortical plasticity. Part of the reason for the lack of thalamic plasticity may lie in the synaptic properties of afferent systems to the thalamus. A second factor may lie in the differences in the organization of cortical and thalamic circuits. Many deprivation paradigms induce plasticity by decreasing phasic lateral inhibition. Since lateral inhibition appears to be far weaker in the thalamus than the cortex, sensory deprivation may not cause large enough imbalances in thalamic activity to induce plasticity in the thalamus.
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- Kevin Fox
- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK.
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Rapid, experience-dependent changes in levels of synaptic zinc in primary somatosensory cortex of the adult mouse. J Neurosci 2002. [PMID: 11923427 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02617.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Electrophysiological studies have established that the adult cerebral cortex undergoes immediate functional reorganizations after perturbations of the sensory periphery. These activity-dependent modifications are thought to be mediated via the rapid regulation of the synaptic strength of existing connections. Recent studies have implicated synaptic zinc as contributing to activity-dependent mechanisms of cortical plasticity, such as long-term potentiation and long-term depression, by virtue of its potent ability to modulate glutamatergic neurotransmission. To investigate the role of synaptic zinc in cortical plasticity, we examined changes in the barrel-specific distribution of zinc in axon terminals innervating the primary somatosensory cortex of adult mice at different time points after whisker plucking. In layer IV of normal adult mice, zinc staining in the barrel field was characterized by intense staining in inter-barrel septae and low levels of staining in barrel hollows. Within 3 hr, and up to 1 week after the removal of a row of whiskers, zinc staining increased significantly in barrel hollows corresponding to the plucked whiskers. With longer survival times, levels of zinc staining gradually declined in deprived barrel hollows, returning to normal levels by 2-3 weeks after whisker removal. Increased levels of zinc staining in deprived barrel hollows were highly, negatively correlated with the length of whiskers as they regrew. These results indicate that levels of synaptic zinc in the neocortex are rapidly regulated by changes in sensory experience and suggest that zinc may participate in the plastic changes that normally occur in the cortex on a moment-to-moment basis.
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Glazewski S, Bejar R, Mayford M, Fox K. The effect of autonomous alpha-CaMKII expression on sensory responses and experience-dependent plasticity in mouse barrel cortex. Neuropharmacology 2001; 41:771-8. [PMID: 11640932 DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3908(01)00097-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The calcium/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) autophosphorylation site is thought to be important for plasticity, learning and memory. If autophosphorylation is prevented by a point mutation (T286A) LTP is blocked in the hippocampus and cortex. Conversely, if the point mutation mimics autophosphorylation (T286D) a range of frequencies that normally produce LTP in wild types cause LTD instead. In order to test whether the alphaCaMKII-T286D mutation increases levels of depression in vivo, we examined the effect of the alphaCaMKII-T286D transgene on plasticity induced in the barrel cortex by whisker deprivation. Surprisingly, the mutation did not affect depression or potentiation. However, in animals reared with the transgene turned on from birth, the surround receptive field responses were greater than normal. This effect may be due to the potentiating action of autophosphorylated CaMKII during early development.
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- S Glazewski
- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, CF10 3US, Cardiff, UK
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The role of cortical activity in experience-dependent potentiation and depression of sensory responses in rat barrel cortex. J Neurosci 2001. [PMID: 11356876 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-11-03881.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The role of cortical activity in experience-dependent cortical plasticity was studied in the rat barrel cortex. Plasticity was induced by depriving every other whisker in a chessboard pattern, which is known to cause depression of responses to deprived whisker stimulation and potentiation of responses to spared whisker stimulation. Postsynaptic activity was blocked by muscimol released from elvax slow-release polymer located under the dura and over the barrel field. Spared whisker responses potentiated 2.5-fold in layer II/III and 2.9-fold in layer IV of the near-neighbor barrel in animals implanted with saline-elvax. In contrast, in whisker-deprived animals implanted with muscimol-elvax, responses were indistinguishable from those in undeprived animals. Similarly, in the spared barrel itself, spared whisker responses potentiated 1.3-fold in layer IV in animals implanted with saline-elvax but not at all in muscimol-treated animals. Whiskers that were deprived and then allowed to regrow showed depressed responses in saline-elvax-treated animals, in which 40% of the cells in layer II/III and 26% in layer IV were unresponsive to their principal whisker. These values fell to 17 and 3% for layers II/III and IV, respectively, in muscimol-treated animals, and the response magnitude distributions were indistinguishable from undeprived cases. Cortical activity block had no acute effect on the ventroposteriomedial nucleus responses and had a transient facilitatory effect after 4 d of muscimol treatment, which returned to baseline as the muscimol treatment wore off. We conclude from these studies that cortical activity is required for potentiation and depression of sensory responses in barrel cortex.
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Czupryn A, Skangiel-Kramska J. Deprivation and denervation differentially affect zinc-containing circuitries in the barrel cortex of mice. Brain Res Bull 2001; 55:287-95. [PMID: 11470329 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(01)00457-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the neocortex, a population of glutamatergic synapses contains chelatable zinc that is released upon depolarization. The present study compares the effect of chronic tactile deprivation and vibrissectomy performed at different postnatal ages on the synaptic zinc distribution in the mouse barrel cortex. We found that a chronic unilateral tactile deprivation resulted in an increase of synaptic zinc in deprived barrels. Distribution and intensity of zinc staining in non-deprived barrels resembled the control situation. The increase of zinc staining was observed if chronic deprivation started in early postnatal life or in adolescent mice but not in 70-day-old animals. This suggests that a critical period exists for plasticity of zinc containing terminals in the barrel cortex. The alteration of zinc staining was localized to not only the thalamorecipient layers IV but also layer II/III, and upper layer V. Neonatal denervation of selected vibrissal rows resulted in rearrangement of synaptic zinc distribution following cytoarchitectonic alterations in the barrel field. However, no changes in the intensity of zinc staining were observed. Vibrissectomy performed after the critical period for barrel formation did not affect either the distribution or intensity of zinc staining. It appears that the integrity of vibrissa-barrel pathway is necessary to induce activity-dependent alterations in synaptic zinc.
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- A Czupryn
- Department of Neurophysiology, The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
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Glazewski S, Giese KP, Silva A, Fox K. The role of alpha-CaMKII autophosphorylation in neocortical experience-dependent plasticity. Nat Neurosci 2000; 3:911-8. [PMID: 10966622 DOI: 10.1038/78820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Calcium/calmodulin kinase type II (CaMKII) is a major postsynaptic density protein. CaMKII is postulated to act as a 'molecular switch', which, when triggered by a transient rise in calcium influx, becomes active for prolonged periods because of its ability to autophosphorylate. We studied experience-dependent plasticity in the barrel cortex of mice carrying a point mutation of the alpha-CaMKII gene (T286A), which abolishes this enzyme's ability to autophosphorylate. Plasticity was prevented in adult and adolescent mice homozygous for the mutation, but was normal in heterozygotes and wild-type littermates. These results provide evidence that the molecular switch hypothesis is valid for neocortical experience-dependent plasticity.
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- S Glazewski
- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK
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Damage or deprivation of a localized region of the skin surface has been shown to induce a selective expansion of adjacent skin surface representations in the adult somatosensory cortex. Here, we use repeated optical imaging in conjunction with single unit recordings to assess the plasticity of a single whisker's functional representation in the adult rat. We observed a large-scale expansion of a single whisker's functional representation following innocuous removal of all neighboring whiskers. Surprisingly, the same manipulation can also induce a large-scale contraction of the representation if the animal is removed from its home cage and given a brief opportunity to use its whiskers for active exploration of a different environment. Both the expansion and contraction reverse upon regrowth of the deprived whiskers. Thus, allowing the animal to use its deprived receptor organ in active exploration can determine the direction of plasticity in the adult cortex.
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- D B Polley
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine, 92697-4550, USA.
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Feldman DE, Nicoll RA, Malenka RC. Synaptic plasticity at thalamocortical synapses in developing rat somatosensory cortex: LTP, LTD, and silent synapses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(199910)41:1<92::aid-neu12>3.0.co;2-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Guo A, Vulchanova L, Wang J, Li X, Elde R. Immunocytochemical localization of the vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1): relationship to neuropeptides, the P2X3 purinoceptor and IB4 binding sites. Eur J Neurosci 1999; 11:946-58. [PMID: 10103088 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00503.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 674] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The vanilloid receptor (VR1) protein functions both as a receptor for capsaicin and a transducer of noxious thermal stimuli. To determine the expression and targetting of this protein, we have generated antisera against both the amino and carboxy termini of VR1. Within the dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia of rats, VR1-immunoreactivity (VR1-ir) was restricted to small and medium sized neurons. VR1-ir was transported into both the central and peripheral processes of these primary afferent neurons, as evidenced by: (i) the presence of VR1-ir in nerve fibres and terminals in lamina I and lamina II of the superficial dorsal horn, and the association of VR1-ir with small diameter nerve fibres in the skin and cornea; (ii) the reduction of VR1-ir in the spinal cord after dorsal rhizotomy; and (iii) the accumulation of VR1-ir proximal to sciatic nerve ligation. At the ultrastructural level, VR1-ir was associated with plasma membranes of neuronal perikarya in dorsal root ganglia and nerve terminals in the dorsal horn. VR1-ir was also seen in nerve fibres and terminals in the spinal trigeminal nucleus and nucleus of the solitary tract. Within a large proportion of dorsal root ganglion neurons and the terminals of their axons, VR1-ir was colocalized with staining for the P2X3 purinoceptor, and with binding sites for the lectin IB4. Surprisingly, VR1-ir did not coexist substantially in nerve fibres and terminals that contain substance P and calcitonin gene-related peptide, suggesting complex mechanisms for the release of these neuropeptides in response to capsaicin application.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibody Specificity
- Blotting, Western
- Cells, Cultured
- Cholera Toxin
- DNA Primers
- Ganglia, Spinal/cytology
- Gene Expression/physiology
- Horseradish Peroxidase
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Kidney/cytology
- Microscopy, Electron
- Nerve Fibers/chemistry
- Nerve Fibers/physiology
- Neurons, Afferent/chemistry
- Neurons, Afferent/cytology
- Neurons, Afferent/ultrastructure
- Nociceptors/physiology
- Rats
- Receptors, Drug/analysis
- Receptors, Drug/genetics
- Receptors, Drug/immunology
- Receptors, Purinergic P2/analysis
- Receptors, Purinergic P2/genetics
- Receptors, Purinergic P2/immunology
- Receptors, Purinergic P2X3
- Spinal Cord/chemistry
- Spinal Cord/cytology
- Spinal Cord/physiology
- Subcellular Fractions/chemistry
- Synaptic Transmission/physiology
- Transfection
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- A Guo
- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Glazewski S, McKenna M, Jacquin M, Fox K. Experience-dependent depression of vibrissae responses in adolescent rat barrel cortex. Eur J Neurosci 1998; 10:2107-16. [PMID: 9753097 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00222.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A short period of vibrissae deprivation in an adolescent (approximately 1 month old) rat can lead to depression of the cortical response to stimulation of the regrown vibrissae. In a barrel column representing the deprived vibrissa, depression is greater for neurons located close to the barrel column representing the spared vibrissa. One possible explanation is that the spared vibrissa produces heterosynaptic depression of the principal vibrissa response (Glazewski & Fox, 1996). To test this idea further, we compared the effect of depriving all vibrissae (no heterosynaptic influence at all) with depriving a single vibrissa (maximal heterosynaptic influence expected). In addition we tested the origin of the depression by recording from subcortical structures. After 7 days' deprivation and 6-8 days' regrowth, we tested the responses of barrel cortex cells, thalamic VPm neurons and trigeminal ganglion cells to stimulation of the regrown vibrissae. We found that depression was greater in cortex if a single vibrissa had been deprived than if all vibrissae had been deprived. (Average principal vibrissae responses in single vibrissae deprived animals were 36% of those in all vibrissae deprived animals for layer II/III and 41% for layer IV.) This implicates the spared vibrissae in actively down-regulating responses to the deprived vibrissae. However, some depression could also be produced in animals deprived of all vibrissae (layers II/III were 39% and layer IV 74% of control levels). These results indicate that simple withdrawal of activation has a depressive effect on responses but that depression is far greater if some active inputs remain. Neither form of deprivation had an effect on responses to principal vibrissa stimulation in the thalamus or trigeminal ganglion however, suggesting that depression originates in the cortex. Within the cortex, intracortical connections seem most affected as the greatest depression was found in layers II/III and in layer IV among cells responding at intermediate latencies (9-14 ms).
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- S Glazewski
- School of Molecular and Medical Biosciences, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
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Differential effects of abnormal tactile experience on shaping representation patterns in developing and adult motor cortex. J Neurosci 1997. [PMID: 9364069 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-09220.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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This study investigates the influence of early somatosensory experience on shaping movement representation patterns in motor cortex. Electrical microstimulation was used to map bilaterally the motor cortices of adult rats subjected to altered tactile experience by unilateral vibrissa trimming from birth (birth-trimmed group) or for comparable periods that began in adulthood (adult-trimmed group). Findings demonstrated that (1) vibrissa trimming from birth, but not when initiated in adulthood, led to a significantly smaller-sized primary motor cortex (M1) vibrissa representation in the hemisphere contralateral to the trimmed vibrissae, with no evidence for concomitant changes in size of the adjacent forelimb representation or the representation of the intact vibrissae in the opposite (ipsilateral) hemisphere; (2) in the contralateral hemispheres of the birth-trimmed group, an abnormal pattern of evoked vibrissa movement was evident in which bilateral or ipsilateral (intact) vibrissa movement predominated; (3) in both hemispheres of the birth-trimmed group, current thresholds for eliciting movement of the trimmed vibrissa were significantly lower than normal; and (4) in the adult-trimmed group, but not in the birth-trimmed group, there was a decrease bilaterally in the relative frequency of dual forelimb-vibrissa sites that form the common border between these representations. These results show that sensory experience early in life exerts a significant influence in sculpting motor representation patterns in M1. The mature motor cortex is more resistant to the type and magnitude of influence that tactile experience has on developing M1, which may indicate that such an influence is constrained by a developmentally regulated critical period.
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Rice FL, Fundin BT, Arvidsson J, Aldskogius H, Johansson O. Comprehensive immunofluorescence and lectin binding analysis of vibrissal follicle sinus complex innervation in the mystacial pad of the rat. J Comp Neurol 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19970825)385:2<149::aid-cne1>3.0.co;2-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Crawley JN. Minireview. Galanin-acetylcholine interactions: relevance to memory and Alzheimer's disease. Life Sci 1996; 58:2185-99. [PMID: 8649205 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(96)00093-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The neuropeptide, galanin, and its receptors are localized in the cholinergic basal forebrain and its projection areas in mammalian brain. Centrally administered galanin inhibits acetylcholine release in the rat ventral hippocampus, and produces deficits in learning and memory tasks. In Alzheimer's disease, galanin is overexpressed in terminals innervating the nucleus basalis of Meynert cell bodies. Selective galanin receptor antagonists provide a novel approach for increasing cholinergic function, as a potential adjunct to the clinical treatment of dementias.
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- J N Crawley
- Section on Behavioral Neuropharmacology, Experimental Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1380, USA.
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Glazewski S, Chen CM, Silva A, Fox K. Requirement for alpha-CaMKII in experience-dependent plasticity of the barrel cortex. Science 1996; 272:421-3. [PMID: 8602534 DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5260.421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The mammalian sensory neocortex exhibits experience-dependent plasticity such that neurons modify their response properties according to changes in sensory experience. The synaptic plasticity mechanism of long-term potentiation requiring calcium-calmodulin-dependent kinase type II (CaMKII) could underlie experience-dependent plasticity. Plasticity in adult mice can be induced by changes in the patterns of tactile input to the barrel cortex. This response is strongly depressed in adult mice that lack the gene encoding alpha-CaMKII, although adolescent animals are unaffected. Thus, alpha-CaMKII is necessary either for the induction or for the expression of plasticity in adult mice.
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- S Glazewski
- Department of Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
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Chiaia NL, Bennett-Clarke CA, Fish SE, Rhoades RW. Differential effects of peripheral manipulations on vibrissae-related patterns in the trigeminal brainstem. Somatosens Mot Res 1996; 13:81-93. [PMID: 8844957 DOI: 10.3109/08990229609051396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The expression of galanin and neuropeptide Y (NPY) by primary afferent neurons, including those in the trigeminal (V) system, is markedly up-regulated after peripheral nerve damage and might be expected to influence the response of central somatosensory cells to such damage. In the present study, we assessed the effects of four manipulations that have been used to study development and maintenance of vibrissae-related patterns in the V system-nerve transection, whisker clipping, activity blockade with tetrodotoxin (TTX), and axoplasmic transport attenuation with vinblastine-upon the expression of galanin and NPY by V ganglion cells and their central axons in the V brainstem complex. Both neonatal transection of the infraorbital nerve (ION) and application of vinblastine to it resulted in a marked up-regulation of galanin and NPY in V ganglion cells and their central axon arbors in animals killed on postnatal day 6. Neither whisker clipping nor application of TTX to the ION produced such changes. Both ION transection and application of vinblastine to this nerve resulted in a loss of vibrissae-related cellular patterns in the brainstem, but TTX application and whisker clipping did not. These results raise the possibility that up-regulation of galanin and NPY may play a role in the disappearance of vibrissae-related cellular patterns in the brainstem of rats that sustain neonatal ION damage.
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- N L Chiaia
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43699-0008, USA
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