The effects of low frequency and two-pulse stimulation protocols on synaptic transmission in the CA1-subiculum pathway in the anaesthetized rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-184

  Anderson, Michael ^a   Commins, Sean ^a   O'Mara, Shane M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Long term depression; Low frequency stimulation; Synaptic plasticity; Two pulse stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBICULUM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033969774     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00996-9     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Amaral D.G., Witter M.P. Hippocampal formation. Paxinos G. The Rat Nervous System. 1995;443-493 Academic Press, San Diego.
2. Burette F., Jay T.M., Laroche S. Reversal of LTP in the hippocampal afferent fiber system to the prefrontal cortex in vivo with low-frequency patterns of stimulation that do not produce LTD. J. Neurophysiol. 78:1997;1155-1160.
3. Commins S., Gigg J., Anderson M., O'Mara S.M. The projection from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum sustains long-term potentiation. NeuroReport. 9:1998;847-850.
4. Commins S., Gigg J., Anderson M., O'Mara S.M. Interaction between paired-pulse facilitation and long-term potentiation in the projection from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum. NeuroReport. 9:1998;4109-4113.
5. Commins S., Anderson M., Gigg J., O'Mara S.M. The effects of single and multiple episodes of theta patterned or high frequency stimulation on synaptic transmission from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum in rats. Neurosci. Lett. 270:1999;99-102.
6. B. J. Physiol. (London). 472:1993;245-265.
7. Doyere V., Errington M.L., Laroche S., Bliss T.V.P. Low-frequency trains of paired stimuli induce long-term depression in area CA1 but not in dentate gyrus of the intact rat. Hippocampus. 6:1996;52-57.
8. Doyle C.A., Cullen W.K., Rowan M.J., Anwyl R. Low-frequency stimulation induces homosynaptic depotentiation but not long-term depression of synaptic transmission in the adult anaesthetized and awake rat hippocampus in vivo. Neuroscience. 77:1997;75-85.
9. Dudek S.M., Bear M.F. Homosynaptic long-term depression in area CA1 of hippocampus and the effects of NMDA receptor blockade. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 89:1992;4363-4367.
10. Dudek S.M., Bear M.F. Bidirectional long-term modification of synaptic effectiveness in the adult and immature hippocampus. J. Neurosci. 13:1993;2910-2918.
11. Errington M.L., Bliss T.V.P., Richter-Levin G., Yenk K., Doyere V., Laroche S. Stimulation at 1-5 Hz does not produce long-term depression or depotentiation in the hippocampus of the adult rat in vivo. J. Neurophysiol. 74:1995;1793-1799.
12. Finch D.M., Tan A.M., Isokawa-Akesson M. Feedforward inhibition of the rat entorhinal cortex and subicular complex. J. Neurosci. 8:1988;2213-2226.
13. Gigg J., Finch D.M., O'Mara S.M. Responses of rat subicular neurons to convergent stimulation of CA1 and lateral entorhinal cortex in vivo. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23:1997;189.
14. Heynen A.J., Abraham W.C., Bear M.F. Bidirectional modification of CA1 synapses in the adult hippocampus in vivo. Nature. 381:1996;163-166.
15. Huerta P.T., Lisman J.E. Bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced by a single burst during cholinergic theta oscillation in CA1 in vitro. Neuron. 15:1995;1053-1063.
16. Paxinos G., Watson C. The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates. 2nd edn. 1986;Academic Press, New York.
17. Staubli U., Scafidi J. Studies on long-term depression in area CA1 of the anesthetized and freely moving rat. J. Neurosci. 17:1997;4820-4828.
18. Taube J.S. Electrophysiological properties of neurons in the rat subiculum in vitro. Exp. Brain Res. 96:1993;304-318.
19. Thiels E., Barrionuevo G., Berger T.W. Excitatory stimulation during postsynaptic inhibition induces long-term depression in hippocampus in vivo. J. Neurophysiol. 72:1994;3009-3116.
20. Thiels E., Xiaping X., Yeckel M.F., Barrionuevo G., Berger T.W. NMDA receptor-dependent LTD in different subfields of hippocampus in vivo and in vitro. Hippocampus. 6:1996;43-51.