Plasticity of burst firing induced by synergistic activation of metabotropic glutamate and acetylcholine receptors.

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Neuron. 2009 Jan 29;61(2):287-300. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.12.013

Plasticity of burst firing induced by synergistic activation of metabotropic glutamate and acetylcholine receptors. Spruston Lab

Moore SJ, Cooper DC, Spruston N

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Abstract

Subiculum, the primary efferent pathway of hippocampus, participates in memory for spatial tasks, relapse to drug abuse, and temporal lobe seizures. Subicular pyramidal neurons exhibit low-threshold burst firing driven by a spike afterdepolarization. Here we report that burst firing can be regulated by stimulation of afferent projections to subiculum. Unlike synaptic plasticity, burst plasticity did not require synaptic depolarization, activation of AMPA or NMDA receptors, or action potential firing. Rather, enhancement of burst firing required synergistic activation of group I, subtype 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR). When either of these receptors was blocked, a suppression of bursting was revealed, which in turn was blocked by antagonists of group I, subtype 5 mGluRs. These results indicate that the output of subiculum can be strongly and bidirectionally regulated by activation of glutamatergic inputs within the hippocampus and cholinergic afferents from the medial septum.

PMID: 19186170 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Plasticity of burst firing induced by synergistic activation of metabotropic glutamate and acetylcholine receptors.

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PMID: 19186170 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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