Publication Date:
1999-10-03
Description:
In a direct approach to elucidate the origin of long-term depression (LTD), glutamate was applied onto dendrites of neurons in rat neocortical slices. An infrared-guided laser stimulation was used to release glutamate from caged glutamate in the focal spot of an ultraviolet laser. A burst of light flashes caused an LTD-like depression of glutamate receptor responses, which was highly confined to the region of "tetanic" stimulation (〈10 micrometers). A similar depression of glutamate receptor responses was observed during LTD of synaptic transmission. A spatially highly specific postsynaptic mechanism can account for the LTD induced by glutamate release.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dodt, H -- Eder, M -- Frick, A -- Zieglgansberger, W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 1;286(5437):110-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2, 80804 Munich, Germany. dodt@mpipsykl.mpg.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10506556" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Dizocilpine Maleate/pharmacology
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Electric Stimulation
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Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology
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Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials
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Glutamates/pharmacology
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Glutamic Acid/metabolism
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In Vitro Techniques
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Infrared Rays
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Lasers
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Microscopy, Video
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Neocortex/cytology/*physiology
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*Neuronal Plasticity
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Patch-Clamp Techniques
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Photolysis
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Pyramidal Cells/*physiology
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Rats
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Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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Receptors, Glutamate/*metabolism
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Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism
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Synapses/*physiology
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*Synaptic Transmission
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
