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Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo

Authors :
Johan Winnubst
Dragos Niculescu
Christian Lohmann
Juliette E. Cheyne
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN)
Source :
Neuron, 87(2), 399-410. Cell Press
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2015.

Abstract

SummarySpontaneous activity fine-tunes neuronal connections in the developing brain. To explore the underlying synaptic plasticity mechanisms, we monitored naturally occurring changes in spontaneous activity at individual synapses with whole-cell patch-clamp recordings and simultaneous calcium imaging in the mouse visual cortex in vivo. Analyzing activity changes across large populations of synapses revealed a simple and efficient local plasticity rule: synapses that exhibit low synchronicity with nearby neighbors (

Details

ISSN :
08966273
Volume :
87
Issue :
2
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Neuron
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ca4b714f2081619b38349b23eb60fd2c
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.029