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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2010

Auditory nerve fibers excite targets through synapses that vary in convergence, strength, and short-term plasticity.

Xiao-Jie Cao, Donata Oertel

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. The role of GABAFrontiers in endocrinology · 2023
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  17. Mammalian octopus cells are direction selective to frequency sweeps by excitatory synaptic sequence detection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  18. Time Course of Activity-Dependent Changes in Auditory Nerve Synapses Reveals Multiple Underlying Cellular Mechanisms.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  20. RIM-Binding Protein 2 Organizes CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiao-Jie CaoDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
Donata Oertel
Wisconsin Division of Public Health · US

Funding

IN VITRO STUDIES OF THE COCHLEAR NUCLEUSR01DC000176 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SUGDEN, DONATA OERTEL · 1989 to 2014
$5.5M
PATCH CLAMP ANALYSIS OF OLFACTORY NEURONSF32DC000176 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI DELAY, RONA J · 1995 to 1997
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NIDCD NIH HHS DC00176NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC000176NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC000176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory nerve fibers are the major source of excitation to the three groups of principal cells of the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN), bushy, T stellate, and octopus cells. Shock-evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents (eEPSCs) in slices from mice showed systematic differences between groups of principal cells, indicating that target cells contribute to determining pre- and postsynaptic properties of synapses from spiral ganglion cells. Bushy cells likely to be small spherical bushy cells receive no more than three, most often two, excitatory inputs; those likely to be globular bushy cells receive at least four, most likely five, inputs. T stellate cells receive 6.5 inputs. Octopus cells receive >60 inputs. The N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) components of eEPSCs were largest in T stellate, smaller in bushy, and smallest in octopus cells, and they were larger in neurons from younger than older mice. The average AMPA conductance of a unitary input is 22 ± 15 nS in both groups of bushy cells, <1.5 nS in octopus cells, and 4.6 ± 3 nS in T stellate cells. Sensitivity to philanthotoxin (PhTX) and rectification in the intracellular presence of spermine indicate that AMPA receptors that mediate eEPSCs in T stellate cells contain more GluR2 subunits than those in bushy and octopus cells. The AMPA components of eEPSCs were briefer in bushy (0.5 ms half-width) than in T stellate and octopus cells (0.8-0.9 ms half-width). Widening of eEPSCs in the presence of cyclothiazide (CTZ) indicates that desensitization shortens eEPSCs. CTZ-insensitive synaptic depression of the AMPA components was greater in bushy and octopus than in T stellate cells.

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AnimalsAuditory PathwaysCluster AnalysisCochlear NerveCochlear NucleusElectric StimulationExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsMiceMice, Inbred ICRNerve FibersNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsPatch-Clamp TechniquesReceptors, AMPASynapsesReceptors, AMPA

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PMID20739600
PMCPMC3350034
OpenAlexW2081859390

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