ArticleDevelopmental neurobiology2017
Perineuronal nets and vocal plasticity in songbirds: A proposed mechanism to explain the difference between closed-ended and open-ended learning.
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- Critical Periods and Beyond: Dynamic Functions of Perineuronal Nets in Cognition, Development, and Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Perineuronal nets in motor circuitry regulate the performance of learned vocalizations in songbirds.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Steroid-dependent plasticity in the song control system: Perineuronal nets and HVC neurogenesis.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- Cross-species conservation in the regulation of parvalbumin by perineuronal nets.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- A brain for all seasons: An in vivo MRI perspective on songbirds.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2022Review
- Plasticity in the hippocampal formation of shorebirds during the wintering period: Stereological analysis of parvalbumin neurons in Actitis macularius.Learning & behavior · 2022Article
- Unraveling the Role of Thyroid Hormones in Seasonal Neuroplasticity in European Starlings (Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Seasonal regulation of singing-driven gene expression associated with song plasticity in the canary, an open-ended vocal learner.Molecular brain · 2021Article
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- Identification, Analysis and Characterization of Base Units of Bird Vocal Communication: The White Spectacled Bulbul (Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Testosterone stimulates perineuronal nets development around parvalbumin cells in the adult canary brain in parallel with song crystallization.Hormones and behavior · 2020Article
- Seasonal changes of perineuronal nets and song learning in adult canaries (Serinus canaria).Behavioural brain research · 2020Article
- Comparing perineuronal nets and parvalbumin development between blackbird species with differences in early developmental song exposure.The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- Inhibitory cell populations depend on age, sex, and prior experience across a neural network for Critical Period learning.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- New concepts in the study of the sexual differentiation and activation of reproductive behavior, a personal view.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2019Review
- Emerging Roles of Synapse Organizers in the Regulation of Critical Periods.Neural plasticity · 2019Review
- Timing of perineuronal net development in the zebra finch song control system correlates with developmental song learning.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Proteolytic Remodeling of Perineuronal Nets: Effects on Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Population Dynamics.Neural plasticity · 2018Review
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Perineuronal nets (PNN) are aggregations of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans surrounding the soma and proximal processes of neurons, mostly GABAergic interneurons expressing parvalbumin. They limit the plasticity of their afferent synaptic connections. In zebra finches PNN develop in an experience-dependent manner in the song control nuclei HVC and RA (nucleus robustus arcopallialis) when young birds crystallize their song. Because songbird species that are open-ended learners tend to recapitulate each year the different phases of song learning until their song crystallizes at the beginning of the breeding season, we tested whether seasonal changes in PNN expression would be found in the song control nuclei of a seasonally breeding species such as the European starling. Only minimal changes in PNN densities and total number of cells surrounded by PNN were detected. However, comparison of the density of PNN and of PNN surrounding parvalbumin-positive cells revealed that these structures are far less numerous in starlings that show extensive adult vocal plasticity, including learning of new songs throughout the year, than in the closed-ended learner zebra finches. Canaries that also display some vocal plasticity across season but were never formally shown to learn new songs in adulthood were intermediate in this respect. Together these data suggest that establishment of PNN around parvalbumin-positive neurons in song control nuclei has diverged during evolution to control the different learning capacities observed in songbird species. This differential expression of PNN in different songbird species could represent a key cellular mechanism mediating species variation between closed-ended and open-ended learning strategies. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 77: 975-994, 2017.
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