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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Neuronal Glutamatergic Network Electrically Wired with Silent But Activatable Gap Junctions.

Diana J Ixmatlahua, Bianca Vizcarra, Gisela Gómez-Lira, Isabel Romero-Maldonado, Franco Ortiz, Gerardo Rojas-Piloni, Rafael Gutiérrez

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Diana J IxmatlahuaDepartamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 14330 Mexico City, Mexico.
Bianca VizcarraDepartamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 14330 Mexico City, Mexico.
Gisela Gómez-LiraDepartamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 14330 Mexico City, Mexico.
Isabel Romero-MaldonadoDepartamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 14330 Mexico City, Mexico.
Franco OrtizDepartamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 14330 Mexico City, Mexico.
Gerardo Rojas-PiloniDepartamento de Neurobiología del Desarrollo y Neurofisiología, Instituto de Neurobiología, Campus UNAM-Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 76230 Querétaro, Mexico.
Rafael GutiérrezDepartamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 14330 Mexico City, Mexico rafagut@cinvestav.mx.
Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute · MXInstituto Politécnico Nacional · MXUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is widely assumed that electrical synapses in the mammalian brain, especially between interneurons, underlie neuronal synchrony. In the hippocampus, principal cells also establish electrical synapses with each other and have also been implicated in network oscillations, whereby the origin of fast electrical activity has been attributed to ectopic spikelets and dendro-dendritic or axo-axonal gap junctions. However, if electrical synapses were in axo-dendritic connections, where chemical synapses occur, the synaptic events would be mixed, having an electrical component preceding the chemical one. This type of communication is less well studied, mainly because it is not easily detected. Moreover, a possible scenario could be that an electrical synapse coexisted with a chemical one, but in a nonconductive state; hence, it would be considered inexistent. Could chemical synapses have a quiescent electrical component? If so, can silent electrical synapses be activated to be detected? We addressed this possibility, and we here report that, indeed, the connexin-36-containing glutamatergic mossy fiber synapses of the rat hippocampus express previously unrecognized electrical synapses, which are normally silent. We reveal that these synapses are pH sensitive, actuate

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AnimalsCells, CulturedElectrical SynapsesGap JunctionsGlutamic AcidHippocampusMaleNerve NetNeuronsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyRats, WistarSynaptic TransmissionGlutamic Acidelectrical circuitelectrical synapsesgap junctionshippocampusmixed synapsesmossy fibers

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PMID32393538
PMCPMC7294797
OpenAlexW3025091000

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