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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6581
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-7-3
pubmed:abstractText
Long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) are activity-dependent changes in synaptic strength that may serve as the cellular mechanisms of information storage in the vertebrate brain. The mossy fibre-CA3 synapse displays NMDA (M-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor-independent forms of LTP and LTD that were thought to be non-associative. Here we report that the mossy fibre-CA3 synapse displays each of the known types of LTD in vivo, including associative, heterosynaptic and homosynaptic LTD. These types of LTD are induced when only two of the three conditions necessary for mossy fibre LTP induction are provided. Because some of these conditions can be provided by convergent CA3 afferents, each type of LTD can be induced in an associative manner, which suggests that LTD is involved in associative information storage. Similar to the induction of NMDA receptor-dependent LTD and LTP at other cortical synapses, mossy fibre LTD occurs when synaptic conditions are insufficient to induce LTP, and both LTP and LTD induction are influenced by previous synaptic activity, consistent with the view that common principles govern activity-dependent plasticity at cortical synapses.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
381
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
429-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Associative, bidirectional modifications at the hippocampal mossy fibre-CA3 synapse.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Life Sciences, The University of Texas, San Antonio 78249, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article