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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
Experience-dependent regulation of synaptic strength has been suggested as a physiological mechanism by which memory storage occurs in the brain. Although modifications in postsynaptic glutamate receptor levels have long been hypothesized to be a molecular basis for long-lasting regulation of synaptic strength, direct evidence obtained in the intact brain has been lacking. Here we show that in the adult brain in vivo, synaptic glutamate receptor trafficking is bidirectionally, and reversibly, modified by NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity and that changes in glutamate receptor protein levels accurately predict changes in synaptic strength. These findings support the idea that memories can be encoded by the precise experience-dependent assignment of glutamate receptors to synapses in the brain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0896-6273
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
527-36
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Electrodes, Implanted, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Long-Term Potentiation, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Memory, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Neural Inhibition, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Neuronal Plasticity, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Rats, Long-Evans, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Receptors, AMPA, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Synapses, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Synaptic Transmission, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Synaptosomes, pubmed-meshheading:11144361-Time
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Bidirectional, activity-dependent regulation of glutamate receptors in the adult hippocampus in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't