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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009

Compensatory changes in cellular excitability, not synaptic scaling, contribute to homeostatic recovery of embryonic network activity.

Jennifer C Wilhelm, Mark M Rich, Peter Wenner

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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39 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Developmental Disruption of Recurrent Inhibitory Feedback Results in Compensatory Adaptation in the Renshaw Cell-Motor Neuron Circuit.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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  16. Glycinergic Neurotransmission: A Potent Regulator of Embryonic Motor Neuron Dendritic Morphology and Synaptic Plasticity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  17. Depolarizing GABA and developmental epilepsies.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jennifer C WilhelmDepartment of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Mark M Rich
Peter Wenner
Emory University · USWright State University · US

Funding

Synaptic Function: Effects of the Nerve Injury, Repair, and Altered ActivityP01NS057228 · NINDS · WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY · PI COPE, TIMOTHY C · 2007 to 2017
$9.1M
Activity and synaptic maturation in the spinal cordR01NS046510 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WENNER, PETER A · 2003 to 2006
$1.0M
NINDS NIH HHS NS-046510NINDS NIH HHS NS-057228NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS057228NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS046510
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When neuronal activity is reduced over a period of days, compensatory changes in synaptic strength and/or cellular excitability are triggered, which are thought to act in a manner to homeostatically recover normal activity levels. The time course over which changes in homeostatic synaptic strength and cellular excitability occur are not clear. Although many studies show that 1-2 days of activity block are necessary to trigger increases in excitatory quantal strength, few studies have been able to examine whether these mechanisms actually underlie recovery of network activity. Here, we examine the mechanisms underlying recovery of embryonic motor activity following block of either excitatory GABAergic or glutamatergic inputs in vivo. We find that GABA(A) receptor blockade triggers fast changes in cellular excitability that occur during the recovery of activity but before changes in synaptic scaling. This increase in cellular excitability is mediated in part by an increase in sodium currents and a reduction in the fast-inactivating and calcium-activated potassium currents. These findings suggest that compensatory changes in cellular excitability, rather than synaptic scaling, contribute to activity recovery. Further, we find a special role for the GABA(A) receptor in triggering several homeostatic mechanisms after activity perturbations, including changes in cellular excitability and GABAergic and AMPAergic synaptic strength. The temporal difference in expression of homeostatic changes in cellular excitability and synaptic strength suggests that there are multiple mechanisms and pathways engaged to regulate network activity, and that each may have temporally distinct functions.

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HomeostasisAnimalsCalcium ChannelsChick EmbryoGABA-A Receptor AntagonistsIon Channel GatingNerve NetNeuronsPyridazinesSodium ChannelsSynapsesTime FactorsCalcium ChannelsGABA-A Receptor AntagonistsgabazinePyridazinesSodium Channels

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PMID19346492
PMCPMC2672480
OpenAlexW2070075679

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