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Synaptic recruitment during long-term potentiation at synapses of the medial perforant pathway in the dentate gyrus of the rat brain

✍ Scribed by Sabrina Wang; J. Martin Wojtowicz; Harold L. Atwood

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 964 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0887-4476
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2396(199601)22:1<78::aid-syn9>3.0.co;2-f

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✦ Synopsis

Long-term potentiation (LTP) in synapses of the medial perforant pathway of the rat dentate gyrus has been studied using the whole-cell voltage clamp technique and a standard hippocampal slice preparation. The rate of LTP induction by 2-4 brief trains of stimuli at 100 Hz, paired with postsynaptic depolarization to -20 my, in individual granule neurons was only 42% but the average magnitude was large. In a representative series of nine experiments the average potentiation was 339% (s.d. 255%). The variable magnitude of LTP appeared to be related t o the relative size of the NMDA receptor dependent current in individual neurons. LTP was further characterized by the selective enhancement of the AMPA (but not the NMDA) component in the excitatory synaptic responses. This selective enhancement of the AMPA component and a graphical variance analysis suggest that the large magnitude of LTP in dentate gyrus can be best explained by recruitment of previously silent synapses by a combination of pre-and post-synaptic mechanisms. o 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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