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ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2019

Mechanisms of Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity

Hey-Kyoung Lee, Alfredo Kirkwood

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Review in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hey-Kyoung LeeDepartment of Neuroscience, Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Alfredo KirkwoodDepartment of Neuroscience, Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Funding

Global Synpatic Plasticity Mechanisms in Visual CortexR01EY014882 · NEI · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI Hey-Kyoung Lee · 2004 to 2026
$7.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014882
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synapses undergo rapid activity-dependent plasticity to store information, which when left uncompensated can lead to destabilization of neural function. It has been well documented that homeostatic changes, which operate at a slower time scale, are required to maintain stability of neural networks. While there are many mechanisms that can endow homeostatic control, sliding threshold and synaptic scaling are unique in that they operate by providing homeostatic control of synaptic strength. The former mechanism operates by adjusting the threshold for synaptic plasticity, while the latter mechanism directly alters the gain of synapses. Both modes of homeostatic synaptic plasticity have been studied across various preparations from reduced

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BCM theorycortical plasticityhebbian plasticityhomeostasismetaplasticitysliding thresholdsynaptic scaling

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PMID31849610
PMCPMC6901705

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