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Volume 17, Number 24, Issue of December 15, 1997 pp. 9458-9465
Importance of Polysynaptic Inputs and Horizontal Connectivity in the Generation of Tetanus-Induced Long-Term Potentiation in the Rat Auditory Cortex
Received Aug. 8, 1997; revised Sept. 29, 1997; accepted Sept. 30, 1997.
Masaharu Kudoh and Katsuei Shibuki Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951, Japan
Supragranular pyramidal neurons in the adult rat auditory cortex (AC) show marked long-term potentiation (LTP) of population spikes after tetanic white matter stimulation (TS). For determination of whether this marked LTP is specific to AC, LTP in rat AC slices was compared with LTP in slices of the visual cortex (VC). The amplitude of TS-induced LTP in AC was twice that in VC. LTP of EPSPs was also studied with perforated patch or whole-cell recording. Although the amplitude of TS-induced LTP of EPSPs in AC was larger that in VC, no cortical difference was found in LTP elicited by low-frequency stimulation paired with current injection. Neocortical LTP is dependent on the activation of NMDA receptors, and induction of LTP requires postsynaptic depolarization for removal of Mg2+ blockade of NMDA receptors. The postsynaptic depolarization elicited by TS in supragranular pyramidal neurons in AC was significantly larger than that in VC. Cutting of supragranular horizontal connections resulted in a decrease in the depolarization amplitude in AC but an increase in the depolarization amplitude in VC. The cortical difference in TS-induced LTP was diminished in the slices in which horizontal connections in supragranular layers were cut. The estimated density of horizontal axon collaterals of supragranular pyramidal neurons in AC was approximately twice that in VC. These results strongly suggest that the marked polysynaptic and postsynaptic depolarization during TS and the resulting marked LTP in AC are attributed to well developed horizontal axon collaterals of supragranular pyramidal neurons in AC.
Key words: auditory cortex; long-term potentiation; pyramidal neuron; axon collateral; horizontal connection; visual cortex
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