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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 1998, 18(23):10196-10206
Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Adult Rat S1 Cortex Requires Local NMDA Receptor Activation
V. Rema1, M. Armstrong-James2, and F. F. Ebner1 1 Institute for Developmental Neuroscience, John F. Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, and 2 Department of Physiology, Queen Mary Westfield College, London University, London, United Kingdom E1 4NS
The effect of blocking NMDA glutamate receptors in adult rat cortex on experience-dependent synaptic plasticity of barrel cortex neurons was studied by infusing D-AP5 with an osmotic minipump over barrel cortex for 5 d of novel sensory experience. In acute pilot studies, 500 µM D-AP5 was shown to specifically suppress NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-dependent responses of single cells in cortical layers I-IV. To induce plasticity, all whiskers except D2 and D1 were cut close to the face 1 d after pump insertion. The animals were housed with 2 cage mates before recording 4 d later. This pairing of two whiskers for several days in awake animals generates highly significant biases in responses from D2 layer IV (barrel) cells to the intact D1 whisker as opposed to the cut D3 whisker. D-AP5 completely prevented the D1/D3 surround whisker bias from occurring in the D2 barrel cells (p > 0.6 for D1 > D3, Wilcoxon). Fast-spike and slow-spike barrel cells were affected equally, suggesting parity for inhibitory and excitatory cell plasticity. D-AP5 only partially suppressed the D1/D3 bias in supragranular layers (layers II-III) in the same penetrations (p < 0.042 for D1 > D3). In control animals, the inactive L-AP5 isomer allowed the bias to develop normally toward the intact surround whisker (p < 0.001 for D1 > D3) for cells in all layers. We conclude that experience-dependent synaptic plasticity of mature barrel cortex is cortically dependent and that modification of local cortical NMDARs is necessary for its expression.
Key words: cortical plasticity; barrel field cortex; whisker pairing; glutamate receptors; NMDA receptor; AP5
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