Regulation of spike timing-dependent plasticity of olfactory inputs in mitral cells in the rat olfactory bulb |
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Authors: | Ma Teng-Fei Zhao Xiao-Lei Cai Lei Zhang Nan Ren Si-Qiang Ji Fang Tian Tian Lu Wei |
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Affiliation: | Department of Neurobiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China. |
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Abstract: | The recent history of activity input onto granule cells (GCs) in the main olfactory bulb can affect the strength of lateral inhibition, which functions to generate contrast enhancement. However, at the plasticity level, it is unknown whether and how the prior modification of lateral inhibition modulates the subsequent induction of long-lasting changes of the excitatory olfactory nerve (ON) inputs to mitral cells (MCs). Here we found that the repetitive stimulation of two distinct excitatory inputs to the GCs induced a persistent modification of lateral inhibition in MCs in opposing directions. This bidirectional modification of inhibitory inputs differentially regulated the subsequent synaptic plasticity of the excitatory ON inputs to the MCs, which was induced by the repetitive pairing of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) with postsynaptic bursts. The regulation of spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) was achieved by the regulation of the inter-spike-interval (ISI) of the postsynaptic bursts. This novel form of inhibition-dependent regulation of plasticity may contribute to the encoding or processing of olfactory information in the olfactory bulb. |
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