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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2017

Functional roles of short-term synaptic plasticity with an emphasis on inhibition.

Haroon Anwar, Xinping Li, Dirk Bucher, Farzan Nadim

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Haroon AnwarFederated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, 323 Martin Luther King Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, United States.
Xinping LiFederated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, 323 Martin Luther King Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, United States.
Dirk BucherFederated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, 323 Martin Luther King Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, United States.
Farzan NadimFederated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, 323 Martin Luther King Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, United States. Electronic address: farzan@njit.edu.

Funding

REGULATION OF NEURONAL OSCILLATIONS BY SYNAPTIC DYNAMICSR01MH060605 · NIMH · NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Dirk Martin Bucher, Farzan Nadim · 2001 to 2026
$6.6M
The role of axons in neural codingR01NS083319 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI BUCHER, DIRK MARTIN, NADIM, FARZAN · 2013 to 2017
$1.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH060605NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083319
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Almost all synapses show activity-dependent dynamic changes in efficacy. Numerous studies have explored the mechanisms underlying different forms of short-term synaptic plasticity (STP), but the functional role of STP for circuit output and animal behavior is less understood. This is particularly true for inhibitory synapses that can play widely varied roles in circuit activity. We review recent findings on the role of synaptic STP in sensory, pattern generating, thalamocortical, and hippocampal networks, with a focus on synaptic inhibition. These studies show a variety of functions including sensory adaptation and gating, dynamic gain control and rhythm generation. Because experimental manipulations of STP are difficult and nonspecific, a clear demonstration of STP function often requires a combination of experimental and computational techniques.

Indexed as

AnimalsBehavior, AnimalNerve NetNeural InhibitionNeuronal PlasticitySynapses

Identifiers

PMID28122326
PMCPMC5447482

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