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ArticleNature communications2018

Excitatory synaptic dysfunction cell-autonomously decreases inhibitory inputs and disrupts structural and functional plasticity.

Hai-Yan He, Wanhua Shen, Lijun Zheng, Xia Guo, Hollis T Cline

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hai-Yan HeThe Dorris Neuroscience Center, Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Wanhua ShenZhejiang Key Laboratory of Organ Development and Regeneration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310036, China. shen@idrbio.org.
Lijun ZhengZhejiang Key Laboratory of Organ Development and Regeneration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310036, China.
Xia GuoZhejiang Key Laboratory of Organ Development and Regeneration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310036, China.
Hollis T ClineThe Dorris Neuroscience Center, Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA. cline@scripps.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4887-9603

Funding

Activity-dependent Development of Visual System DevelopmentR01EY011261 · NEI · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI CLINE, HOLLIS T. · 1996 to 2018
$11.1M
Development of midbrain circuitryR01EY027437 · NEI · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI CLINE, HOLLIS T. · 2018 to 2020
$1.9M
METHYLATION SPECIFIC PCR FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS/PROGNOSISR43CA090007 · NCI · UROCOR, INC. · PI VELTRI, ROBERT W · 2001 to 2001
$98k
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation) LY17C090007NEI NIH HHS R01 EY011261NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027437U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Eye Institute (NEI) EY011261U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Eye Institute (NEI) EY027437
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional circuit assembly is thought to require coordinated development of excitation and inhibition, but whether they are co-regulated cell-autonomously remains unclear. We investigate effects of decreased glutamatergic synaptic input on inhibitory synapses by expressing AMPAR subunit, GluA1 and GluA2, C-terminal peptides (GluA1CTP and GluA2CTP) in developing Xenopus tectal neurons. GluACTPs decrease excitatory synaptic inputs and cell-autonomously decreases inhibitory synaptic inputs in excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Visually evoked excitatory and inhibitory currents decrease proportionately, maintaining excitation/inhibition. GluACTPs affect dendrite structure and visual experience-dependent structural plasticity differently in excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Deficits in excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission and experience-dependent plasticity manifest in altered visual receptive field properties. Both visual avoidance behavior and learning-induced behavioral plasticity are impaired, suggesting that maintaining excitation/inhibition alone is insufficient to preserve circuit function. We demonstrate that excitatory synaptic dysfunction in individual neurons cell-autonomously decreases inhibitory inputs and disrupts neuronal and circuit plasticity, information processing and learning.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedDendritesExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsLarvaMicroscopy, ConfocalNeural InhibitionNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsPeptidesPhotic StimulationReceptors, AMPASuperior ColliculiTime-Lapse ImagingXenopus laevisPeptidesReceptors, AMPA

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PMID30042473
PMCPMC6057951

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