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- Title
A juvenile form of postsynaptic hippocampal long-term potentiation in mice deficient for the AMPA receptor subunit GluR-A.
- Authors
Jensen, Vidar; Kaiser, Katharina M. M.; Borchardt, Thilo; Adelmann, Giselind; Rozov, Andrei; Burnashev, Nail; Brix, Christian; Frotscher, Michael; Andersen, Per; Hvalby, Øivind; Sakmann, Bert; Seeburg, Peter H.; Sprengel, Rolf
- Abstract
In adult mice, long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission at CA3-to-CA1 synapses induced by tetanic stimulation requires L-α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptors containing GluR-A subunits. Here, we report a GluR-A-independent form of LTP, which is comparable in size to LTP in wild-type mice at postnatal day 14 (P14) but diminishes between P14 and P42 in brain slices of GluR-A-deficient mice. The GluR-A-independent form of LTP is sensitive to D(-)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (D-AP5), but lacks short-term potentiation (STP) and can also be observed in the pairing induction protocol. As judged by unaltered paired-pulse facilitation, this LTP form is postsynaptically expressed despite depleted extrasynaptic AMPA receptor pools with reduced levels of GluR-B, which accumulates in somata and synapses of CA1 pyramidal neurons in GluR-A-deficient mice. Our results show that in the developing hippocampus synaptic plasticity can be expressed by AMPA receptors lacking the GluR-A subunit.
- Subjects
NEURAL transmission; SYNAPSES; BRAIN; NEURONS; LABORATORY mice
- Publication
Journal of Physiology, 2003, Vol 553, Issue 3, p843
- ISSN
0022-3751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1113/jphysiol.2003.053637