Optical Quantal Analysis Indicates that Long-Term Potentiation at Single Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses is Expressed through Increased Release Probability, Recruitment of New Release Sites, and Activation of Silent Synapses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3618-3626

  Reid, Christopher A ^a,c   Dixon, Don B ^a   Takahashi, Michiko ^a,d   Bliss, Tim V P ^a   Fine, Alan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CA3 pyramidal cell; Calcium; Confocal microscopy; Dendritic spine; Fluorescence imaging; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Mossy fiber; Plasticity; Quantal analysis; Silent synapse; Synapse

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; INDICATOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FLUORESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OPTICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 1842682002     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3567-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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