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ArticleCell reports2019

Unifying Long-Term Plasticity Rules for Excitatory Synapses by Modeling Dendrites of Cortical Pyramidal Neurons.

Christian Ebner, Claudia Clopath, Peter Jedlicka, Hermann Cuntz

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Article in Cell reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christian EbnerFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: ebner@fias.uni-frankfurt.de.
Claudia ClopathComputational Neuroscience Laboratory, Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Peter JedlickaFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Neuroscience Center, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; ICAR3R-Interdisciplinary Centre for 3Rs in Animal Research, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
Hermann CuntzFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DEImperial College London · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large number of experiments have indicated that precise spike times, firing rates, and synapse locations crucially determine the dynamics of long-term plasticity induction in excitatory synapses. However, it remains unknown how plasticity mechanisms of synapses distributed along dendritic trees cooperate to produce the wide spectrum of outcomes for various plasticity protocols. Here, we propose a four-pathway plasticity framework that is well grounded in experimental evidence and apply it to a biophysically realistic cortical pyramidal neuron model. We show in computer simulations that several seemingly contradictory experimental landmark studies are consistent with one unifying set of mechanisms when considering the effects of signal propagation in dendritic trees with respect to synapse location. Our model identifies specific spatiotemporal contributions of dendritic and axo-somatic spikes as well as of subthreshold activation of synaptic clusters, providing a unified parsimonious explanation not only for rate and timing dependence but also for location dependence of synaptic changes.

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Models, NeurologicalAction PotentialsAnimalsCerebral CortexComputer SimulationDendritesGene ExpressionHippocampusLong-Term PotentiationPatch-Clamp TechniquesPyramidal CellsRatsReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB1Receptors, Metabotropic GlutamateSynapsesSynaptic Transmissionmetabotropic glutamate receptor type 1Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamatecompartmental modelingdendritic spikeslong term depression (LTD)long term potentiation (LTP)NMDA spikesspike timing dependent plasticity (STDP)synaptic cooperativitysynaptic plasticity

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PMID31875541
PMCPMC6941234
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