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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 28, 2006, 26(26):6945-6957; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1382-06.2006

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Temperature-Dependent Shift of Balance among the Components of Short-Term Plasticity in Hippocampal Synapses

Vitaly A. Klyachko and Charles F. Stevens

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037

Correspondence should be addressed to Vitaly A. Klyachko, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037. Email: klyachko{at}salk.edu

Studies of short-term plasticity (STP) in the hippocampus, performed mostly at room temperature, have shown that small central synapses rapidly depress in response to high-frequency stimulation. This decrease in synaptic strength with synapse use places constraints on the use of STP as a dynamic filter for processing of natural high-frequency input. Here we report that, because of a strong but differential temperature dependence of STP components, the properties of STP in excitatory hippocampal synapses change dramatically with temperature. By separating the contributions of various STP processes during spike trains at different temperatures, we found a shift from dominating depression at 23°C to prevailing facilitation and augmentation at 33–38°C. This shift of balance among STP components resulted from a large increase in amplitudes of facilitation and augmentation (Q₁₀ 2.6 and 5.1, respectively) and little change in the amplitude of depression (Q₁₀ 1.1) with temperature. These changes were accompanied by the accelerated decay of all three processes (Q₁₀ = 3.2, 6.6, and 2.1, respectively). The balance of STP components achieved at higher temperatures greatly improved the maintenance of synaptic strength during prolonged synaptic use and had a strong effect on the processing of natural spike trains: a variable mixture of facilitated and depressed responses at 23°C changed into a significantly more reproducible and depression-free filtering pattern at 33–38°C. This filtering pattern was highly conserved among cells, slices, and animals, and under various physiological conditions, arguing for its physiological significance. Therefore, the fine balance among STP components, achieved only at near body temperatures, is required for the robust function of STP as a dynamic filter during natural stimulation.

Key words: short-term synaptic plasticity; temperature dependence; natural stimulation patterns; synaptic filtering; information processing; hippocampus

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Received Jan. 5, 2006; revised May 24, 2006; accepted May 24, 2006.

Correspondence should be addressed to Vitaly A. Klyachko, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037. Email: klyachko{at}salk.edu

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