White G, Levy W B, Steward O
Department of Physiology, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1988 Apr;85(7):2368-72. doi: 10.1073/pnas.85.7.2368.
The present study evaluates whether the associative interactions between synapses that lead to long-term potentiation and depression (LTP and LTD) can occur between spatially segregated synapses of the medial and lateral temporodentate pathway of the rat. Coconditioning of crossed and ipsilateral pathways resulted in LTP of the crossed system only when the current sinks of the two conditioned pathways overlapped sufficiently. Likewise, conditioning of an ipsilateral pathway alone resulted in LTD of the crossed pathway only when those current sinks overlapped sufficiently. These observations support the idea that associative events that lead to LTP or LTD can be restricted to a local dendritic domain. The postsynaptic cell can therefore serve as more than one unit of integration for synaptic modification.
本研究评估了导致长时程增强和长时程抑制(LTP和LTD)的突触间联合相互作用是否能在大鼠内侧和外侧颞齿状回通路的空间分离突触之间发生。交叉和同侧通路的共条件作用仅在两条受条件作用通路的电流沉充分重叠时才导致交叉系统的LTP。同样,仅同侧通路的条件作用仅在那些电流沉充分重叠时才导致交叉通路的LTD。这些观察结果支持这样一种观点,即导致LTP或LTD的联合事件可局限于局部树突域。因此,突触后细胞可作为突触修饰的多个整合单元。