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ReviewNeurobiology of learning and memory2009

Insights into a molecular switch that gates sensory neuron synapses during habituation in Aplysia.

Tony D Gover, Thomas W Abrams

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Review in Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Passive exposure attenuates distraction during visual search.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2020
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  5. A Review of Clinical Data on Salvage Therapy in Spinal Cord Stimulation.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2020
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  6. Habituation as a neural algorithm for online odor discrimination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  7. Distractor ignoring: strategies, learning, and passive filtering.Current directions in psychological science · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tony D GoverDepartment of Pharmacology, Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland School of Medicine, BRB 4-002, 655 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-1559, USA.
Thomas W Abrams
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

NONASSOCIATIVE AND ASSOCIATIVE NEUROPLASTICITYR01MH055880 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI ABRAMS, THOMAS W · 1995 to 2015
$4.9M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH055880
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review focuses on synaptic depression at sensory neuron-to-motor neuron synapses in the defensive withdrawal circuit of Aplysia as a model system for analysis of molecular mechanisms of sensory gating and habituation. We address the following topics: 1. Of various possible mechanisms that might underlie depression at these sensory neuron-to-motor neuron synapses in Aplysia, historically the most widely-accepted explanation has been depletion of the readily releasable pool of vesicles. Depletion is also believed to account for synaptic depression at long interstimulus intervals in a variety of other systems. 2. Multiple lines of evidence now indicate that vesicle depletion is not an important contributing mechanism to synaptic depression at Aplysia sensory neuron-to-motor neuron synapses. More generally, it appears that vesicle depletion does not contribute substantially to depression that occurs with those stimulus patterns that are typically used in studying behavioral habituation. 3. Recent evidence suggests that at these sensory neuron-to-motor neuron synapses in Aplysia, synaptic depression is mediated by an activity-dependent, but release-independent, switching of individual release sites to a silent state. This switching off of release sites is initiated by Ca2+ influx during individual action potentials. We discuss signaling proteins that may be regulated by Ca2+ during the silencing of release sites that underlies synaptic depression. 4. Bursts of 2-4 action potentials in presynaptic sensory neurons in Aplysia prevent the switching off of release sites via a mechanism called "burst-dependent protection" from synaptic depression. 5. This molecular switch may explain the sensory gating that allows animals to discriminate which stimuli are innocuous and appropriate to ignore and which stimuli are more important and should continue to elicit responses.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAnimalsAplysiaCalciumCalcium ChannelsHabituation, PsychophysiologicModels, AnimalModels, NeurologicalMotor NeuronsReflexSensory Receptor CellsSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionSynaptic VesiclesCalciumCalcium Channels

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PMID19345275
PMCPMC4226437
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