Publication Date:
2010-02-27
Description:
Critical periods are times of pronounced brain plasticity. During a critical period in the postnatal development of the visual cortex, the occlusion of one eye triggers a rapid reorganization of neuronal responses, a process known as ocular dominance plasticity. We have shown that the transplantation of inhibitory neurons induces ocular dominance plasticity after the critical period. Transplanted inhibitory neurons receive excitatory synapses, make inhibitory synapses onto host cortical neurons, and promote plasticity when they reach a cellular age equivalent to that of endogenous inhibitory neurons during the normal critical period. These findings suggest that ocular dominance plasticity is regulated by the execution of a maturational program intrinsic to inhibitory neurons. By inducing plasticity, inhibitory neuron transplantation may facilitate brain repair.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164148/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164148/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Southwell, Derek G -- Froemke, Robert C -- Alvarez-Buylla, Arturo -- Stryker, Michael P -- Gandhi, Sunil P -- EY016317/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- F32 EY016317/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- F32 EY016317-03/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- P50 MH077972/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- P50 MH077972-05/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS048528/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS048528-04/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Feb 26;327(5969):1145-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1183962.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurological Surgery and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20185728" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Aging
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*Dominance, Ocular
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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*Neural Inhibition
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*Neuronal Plasticity
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Neurons/*transplantation
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Prosencephalon/cytology/embryology
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Sensory Deprivation
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Synapses/physiology
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Visual Cortex/growth & development/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
