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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2025

Experience-induced NPAS4 reduces dendritic inhibition from CCK+ inhibitory neurons and enhances plasticity.

Daniel A Heinz, Wenhao Cui, Kimberly L Cooper, Brenda L Bloodgood

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. NPAS4 refines spatial and temporal firing in CA1 pyramidal neurons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Daniel A HeinzDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9450-6242
Wenhao CuiDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States.
Kimberly L CooperDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States.
Brenda L BloodgoodDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4797-9119

Funding

Development of approaches to apply CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene conversion to model complex genetic traits in miceR01GM148640 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Kimberly Lynn Cooper · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Activity Dependent Gene Regulation in NeuronsR01NS111162 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BLOODGOOD, BRENDA L · 2020 to 2024
$1.8M
Complex genetic encoding of experience by NPAS4 resulting in a sophisticated reorganization of inhibition.F31MH124355 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HEINZ, DANIEL A · 2021 to 2023
$130k
HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 5R01GM148640HHS | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) F31MH124355HHS | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 5R01NS111162NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM148640NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH124355NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111162
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flexibility of neurological systems stems from a host of biological responses to changing experience. When a mouse explores an enriched environment, neurons throughout the brain express the inducible transcription factor NPAS4. In CA1 of the hippocampus, pyramidal neurons that express NPAS4 receive more perisomatic inhibition from cholecystokinin (CCK+) inhibitory neurons and less dendritic inhibition from a previously unidentified inhibitory neuron population. Here, we show that this reduction in dendritic inhibition is specific to synapses made by CCK+ inhibitory neurons and that these NPAS4-dependent changes result in facilitation of theta-burst synaptic plasticity. Thus, NPAS4 expression reorganizes inhibition from a genetically defined population of inhibitory neurons, changing learning rules in response to an animal's interactions with its environment.

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Basic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCA1 Region, HippocampalCholecystokininDendritesNeural InhibitionNeuronal PlasticityPyramidal CellsAnimalsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCholecystokininNpas4 protein, mouseCCK inhibitory neurondendritic inhibitionenriched environmentNPAS4plasticity

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PMID40588373
PMCPMC12372623

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