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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 15, 1998, 18(18):7118-7126
Postsynaptic Complex Spike Bursting Enables the Induction of LTP
by Theta Frequency Synaptic Stimulation
Mark J.
Thomas1,
Ayako
M.
Watabe2,
Teena D.
Moody1,
Michael
Makhinson1, and
Thomas J.
O'Dell2
1 Interdepartmental PhD Program for Neuroscience and
2 Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University
of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
Long-term potentiation (LTP), a persistent enhancement of synaptic
transmission that may be involved in some forms of learning and memory,
is induced at excitatory synapses in the CA1 region of the hippocampus
by coincident presynaptic and postsynaptic activity. Although action
potentials back-propagating into dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal
cells provide sufficient postsynaptic activity to induce LTP under some
in vitro conditions, it is not known whether LTP can be
induced by patterns of postsynaptic action potential firing that occur
in these cells in vivo. Here we report that a
characteristic in vivo pattern of action potential
generation in CA1 pyramidal cells known as the complex spike burst
enables the induction of LTP during theta frequency synaptic
stimulation in the CA1 region of hippocampal slices maintained
in vitro. Our results suggest that complex spike
bursting may have an important role in synaptic processes involved in
learning and memory formation, perhaps by producing a highly sensitive
postsynaptic state during which even low frequencies of presynaptic
activity can induce LTP.
Key words:
long-term potentiation; complex spike burst; hippocampus; pyramidal cells; synaptic transmission; learning and memory
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/18187118-09$05.00/0
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