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The Journal of Neuroscience, August 1, 1998, 18(15):5988-5998
Cellular Correlates of Long-Term Sensitization in
Aplysia
Leonard J.
Cleary,
Wai L.
Lee, and
John H.
Byrne
W. M. Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory,
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Houston
Medical School, Houston, Texas 77225
Although in vitro analyses of long-term changes in
the sensorimotor connection of Aplysia have been used
extensively to understand long-term sensitization, relatively little is
known about the ways in which the connection is modified by learning
in vivo. Moreover, sites other than the sensory neurons
might be modified as well. In this paper, several different biophysical
properties of sensory neurons, motor neurons, and LPl17, an identified
interneuron, were examined. Membrane properties of sensory neurons,
which were expressed as increased excitability and increased spike
afterdepolarization, were affected by the training. The biophysical
properties of motor neurons also were affected by training,
resulting in hyperpolarization of the resting membrane potential and a
decrease in spike threshold. These results suggest that motor neurons
are potential loci for storage of the memory in sensitization. The
strength of the connection between sensory and motor neurons was
affected by the training, although the connection between LPl17 and the
motor neuron was unaffected. Biophysical properties of LPl17 were
unaffected by training. The results emphasize the importance of
plasticity at sensory-motor synapses and are consistent with the idea
that there are multiple sites of plasticity distributed throughout the
nervous system.
Key words:
sensitization; facilitation; excitability; plasticity; tail withdrawal; Aplysia
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/18155988-11$05.00/0
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