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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 12, 2006, 26(28):7368-7374; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0124-06.2006
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Bidirectional Modifications of Visual Acuity Induced by Monocular Deprivation in Juvenile and Adult Rats
Karen Iny, * Arnold J. Heynen, * Erik Sklar, andMark F. Bear Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Correspondence should be addressed to Mark F. Bear, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Email: mbear{at}mit.edu
Recent electrophysiological studies of rodent visual cortex suggest that, in addition to deprived-eye depression, monocular deprivation (MD) also shifts ocular dominance by potentiation of open-eye responses. We used computer-based, two-choice discrimination tasks to assess the behavioral significance of these findings in rats. As expected, prolonged MD, from postnatal day 21 until adulthood (>150 d) markedly decreased visual acuity through the deprived eye. However, we also found that the acuity through the nondeprived eye was significantly enhanced compared with normally reared controls. Interestingly, when the deprived eye was opened in adults, there was a gradual but incomplete recovery of acuity in the deprived eye preceded by a loss of the enhanced acuity in the nondeprived eye. These changes were reversed by again reclosing the eye. These findings suggest that the bidirectional changes in visually evoked responses after MD are behaviorally meaningful and that significant plasticity is exhibited well into adulthood.
Key words: acuity; visual cortex; monocular deprivation; critical period; metaplasticity; ocular dominance plasticity
Received Jan. 11, 2006; revised June 5, 2006; accepted June 7, 2006.
Correspondence should be addressed to Mark F. Bear, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Email: mbear{at}mit.edu
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