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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2009

The fast and slow afterhyperpolarizations are differentially modulated in hippocampal neurons by aging and learning.

Elizabeth A Matthews, John M Linardakis, John F Disterhoft

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 134 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 countries.

Elizabeth A MatthewsDepartment of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. ElizabethMatthews2009@u.northwestern.edu
John M Linardakis
John F Disterhoft
Northwestern University · USNorthwestern University · PH

Funding

SLOW OUTWARD CURRENTS AND LEARNING IN AGING HIPPOCAMPUSR37AG008796 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI DISTERHOFT, JOHN F · 1999 to 2020
$9.2M
The BK current, Ic, and Fast AHP in learning & agingF31NS053434 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MATTHEWS, ELIZABETH · 2006 to 2008
$87k
NIA NIH HHS R37 AG008796NIA NIH HHS R37 AG08796NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS053434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Normal aging is usually accompanied by increased difficulty learning new information. One contributor to aging-related cognitive decline is decreased intrinsic excitability in aged neurons, leading to more difficulty processing inputs and remodeling synapses to store new memories. Two measures of excitability known to be altered by learning are the slow afterhyperpolarization (sAHP) after a burst of action potentials and the fast AHP (fAHP) after individual action potentials. Using rats trained in trace eyeblink conditioning, we examined how these two measures of excitability were modulated in CA1 hippocampal neurons from young (3-4 months) and aged (29-31 months) animals. Although both the sAHP and the fAHP were reduced by successful learning in both age groups, only the sAHP showed aging-related increases. The dichotomy of learning-related and aging-related effects on two very similar calcium-dependent potassium-driven hyperpolarizations suggests several interesting hypotheses for how cellular excitability is modulated by aging and learning.

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Action PotentialsAgingAnimalsBlinkingHippocampusLearningMaleNeuronsRatsRats, Inbred BNRats, Inbred F344Time Factors

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PMID19369544
PMCPMC2678237
OpenAlexW2014651088

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