2007年6月
Ca2+ requirements for cerebellar long-term synaptic depression: Role for a postsynaptic leaky integrator
NEURON
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- 巻
- 54
- 号
- 5
- 開始ページ
- 787
- 終了ページ
- 800
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.05.014
- 出版者・発行元
- CELL PRESS
Photolysis of a caged Ca2+ compound was used to characterize the dependence of cerebellar long-term synaptic depression (LTD) on postsynaptic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+](i)). Elevating [Ca2+](i) was sufficient to induce LTD without requiring any of the other signals produced by synaptic activity. A sigmoidal relationship between [Ca2+](i) and LTD indicated a highly cooperative triggering of LTD by Ca2+. The duration of the rise in [Ca2+](i) influenced the apparent Ca2+ affinity of LTD, and this time-dependent behavior could be described by a leaky integrator process with a time constant of 0.6 s. A computational model, based on a positive-feedback cycle that includes protein kinase C and MAP kinase, was capable of simulating these properties of Ca2+-triggered LTD. Disrupting this cycle experimentally also produced the predicted changes in the Ca2+ dependence of LTD. We conclude that LTD arises from a mechanism that integrates postsynaptic Ca2+ signals and that this integration may be produced by the positive-feed back cycle.
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.05.014
- ISSN : 0896-6273
- PubMed ID : 17553426
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000247329900011