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ArticleOxford open neuroscience2022

Serotonin facilitates late-associative plasticity via synaptic tagging/cross-tagging and capture at hippocampal CA2 synapses in male rats.

Amrita Benoy, Lik-Wei Wong, Niha Ather, Sreedharan Sajikumar

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Article in Oxford open neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Hippocampal CA2 to CA1: A metaplastic switch for memory encoding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Synapses tagged, memories kept: synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis in brain health and disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amrita BenoyDepartment of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117597 Singapore.
Lik-Wei WongDepartment of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117597 Singapore.
Niha AtherDepartment of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117597 Singapore.
Sreedharan SajikumarDepartment of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117597 Singapore.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5761-8982
National University of Singapore · SG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal Cornu Ammonis (CA) subfield, CA2, is tightly regulated. However, CA2 receives projections from several extra-hippocampal modulatory nuclei that release modulators that could serve to fine-tune plasticity at CA2 synapses. Considering that there are afferent projections from the serotonergic median raphe to hippocampal CA2, we hypothesized that the neuromodulator serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) could modulate CA2 synaptic plasticity. Here, we show that bath-application of serotonin facilitates the persistence of long-term depression (LTD) at the CA3 Schaffer collateral inputs to CA2 neurons (SC-CA2) when coupled to a weak low frequency electrical stimulation, in acute rat hippocampal slices. The observed late-LTD at SC-CA2 synapses was protein synthesis- and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-dependent. Moreover, this late-LTD at SC-CA2 synapses paves way for the associative persistence of transient forms of LTD as well as long-term potentiation to long-lasting late forms of plasticity through synaptic tagging and cross-tagging respectively, at the entorhinal cortical synapses of CA2. We further observe that the 5-HT-mediated persistence of activity-dependent LTD at SC-CA2 synapses is blocked in the presence of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor scavenger, TrkB/Fc.

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