Excitatory synaptic integration in hippocampal pyramids and dentate granule cells.
Excitatory synaptic integration in hippocampal pyramids and dentate granule cells.
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海马锥体和齿状颗粒细胞中的兴奋性突触整合。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1990.055.01.010
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发表时间:
1990
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Johan F. Storm
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P. Andersen;M. Raastad;Johan F. Storm
Excitatory synapses on hippocampal pyramids are exclusively located to dendritic spines, usually in a 1: 1 proportion. The number of spines indicates a convergence of as many as 12,000 excitatory boutons per CA1 pyramidal cell in rats. Activation of a single afferent fiber produces a unitary excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) of about 150/xV, probably produced by a single quantum of transmitter. Surprisingly, in view of the large synaptic convergence, these microelectrode experiments suggest that only 100-300 synchronously active excitatory synapses are necessary to make the cell discharge. Even more astounding, whole-cell patch recording gave single fiber EPSPs of 1-4 mV, suggesting that only about ten coactive presynaptic cells are required to discharge a young CA1 cell. The release probability is normally low but may be increased by facilitatory processes. On average, each afferent fiber has few boutons (mostly one but up to five) in contact with a given CA1 pyramid. Synapses in various parts of the dendritic tree are nearly equipotent. Excitatory postsynaptic potentials produced by neighboring synapses sum linearly, both with each other and with hyperpolarizing inhibitory potentials. Cable theoretical considerations suggest that the sum will be greater for synapses contacting the same secondary dendrite than for more distributed dendritic contacts.Three types of inhibitory neurons provide different classes of interference. The chandelier cells terminate on the initial axons of a large number of pyramidal ceils, thus capable of producing a widespread and effective inhibition. By hyperpolarizing the soma of a smaller number of cells, basket cells counteract all excitatory inputs with these cells, irrespective of synaptic location. In contrast with these two forms of global inhibition, stellate cells may cause a shunting form of inhibition at specific dendritic sites. Such local inhibition effectively removes the influence of synapses lying further distally on the same dendritic branch, whereas it has either no effect or even a certain facilitatory influence on more centrally placed inputs. After-hyperpolarization also reduces the efficiency of an excitatory synaptic drive but only for discharging neurons. Finally, synaptic efficiency, and thereby integration, depends heavily on several activity-dependent plastic changes: facilitation, augmentation, posttetanic potentiation, and long-term potentiation, listed in order of increasing duration. The large number of factors that influence the synaptic interplay makes an individual