Recovery kinetics of short-term depression of GABAergic and glutamatergic synapses at layer 2/3 pyramidal cells in the mouse barrel cortex.
In: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2023-10-09, S. 1-15
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Introduction: Short-term synaptic plasticity (STP) is a widespread mechanism underlying activity-dependent modifications of cortical networks. Methods: To investigate how STP influences excitatory and inhibitory synapses in layer 2/3 of mouse barrel cortex, we combined whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from visually identified pyramidal neurons (PyrN) and parvalbuminpositive interneurons (PV-IN) of cortical layer 2/3 in acute slices with electrical stimulation of afferent fibers in layer 4 and optogenetic activation of PV-IN. Results: These experiments revealed that electrical burst stimulation (10 pulses at 10 Hz) of layer 4 afferents to layer 2/3 neurons induced comparable short-term depression (STD) of glutamatergic postsynaptic currents (PSCs) in PyrN and in PV-IN, while disynaptic GABAergic PSCs in PyrN showed a stronger depression. Burst-induced depression of glutamatergic PSCs decayed within <4 s, while the decay of GABAergic PSCs required >11 s. Optogenetically-induced GABAergic PSCs in PyrN also demonstrated STD after burst stimulation, with a decay of >11 s. Excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) in PyrN were unaffected after electrical burst stimulation, while a selective optogenetic STD of GABAergic synapses caused a transient increase of electrically evoked EPSPs in PyrN. Discussion: In summary, these results demonstrate substantial short-term plasticity at all synapses investigated and suggest that the prominent STD observed in GABAergic synapses can moderate the functional efficacy of glutamatergic STD after repetitive synaptic stimulations. This mechanism may contribute to a reliable information flow toward the integrative layer 2/3 for complex time-varying sensory stimuli. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Recovery kinetics of short-term depression of GABAergic and glutamatergic synapses at layer 2/3 pyramidal cells in the mouse barrel cortex.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lombardi, Aniello ; Wang, Qiang ; Stüttgen, Maik C. ; Mittmann, Thomas ; Luhmann, Heiko J. ; Kilb, Werner |
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Zeitschrift: | Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2023-10-09, S. 1-15 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1662-5102 (print) |
DOI: | 10.3389/fncel.2023.1254776 |
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