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The Journal of Neuroscience, 0000, 20:RC85:1-7

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Short-Term Synaptic Enhancement Modulates Ingestion Motor Programs of Aplysia

José Antonio D. Sánchez and Mark D. Kirk

Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211

Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity regulates the flow of information in neuronal networks and has important implications for the expression of behavior. We find a functional role for short-term synaptic enhancement (STE) such as facilitation, augmentation, and post-tetanic potentiation at central synapses in the sea slug Aplysia californica. Consummatory feeding in Aplysia such as rhythmic biting is controlled by command-like cerebral-buccal interneurons (CBIs) that drive rhythmic motor output in the buccal ganglia. CBI interneuron-2 (CBI-2) makes monosynaptic connections onto buccal neurons, including premotor neurons B31/32 and B34 and motor neurons B61/62. Stimulating CBI-2 at a physiological firing frequency of 10 Hz for 30 sec causes these synapses to increase their EPSP amplitude by ~200%. This STE persists for nearly 2 min, during which time there is an increased cycle frequency of rhythmic ingestion buccal motor programs (iBMPs) elicited by CBI-2. This increase does not occur if the contralateral CBI-2 is trained and the test is performed with the ipsilateral CBI-2; therefore, the effect on motor programs only occurs in CBI-2 pathways in which STE is elicited. Furthermore, we find that STE elicited at CBI-2 buccal synapses permits iBMPs to be initiated at lower firing frequencies. Thus, STE of CBI-2 synapses appears to contribute to the initiation or modulation, or both, of buccal motor programs for rhythmic ingestion in Aplysia.

Key words: facilitation; augmentation; post-tetanic potentiation; synaptic plasticity; synaptic modulation; buccal ganglia; Aplysia californica


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