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Science 27 February 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5355, pp. 1368 - 1371
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5355.1368
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Target-Specific Expression of Presynaptic Mossy Fiber Plasticity

Gianmaria Maccaferri, * Katalin Tóth, Chris J. McBain dagger

Mossy fiber synaptic transmission at hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells and interneurons was compared in rat brain slices to determine whether mossy terminals are functionally equivalent. Tetanic stimulation of mossy fibers induced long-term potentiation in pyramidal neurons but was either without effect or it induced depression at synapses onto interneurons. Unlike transmission onto pyramidal neurons, transmission onto interneurons was not potentiated after adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) activation. Furthermore, metabotropic glutamate receptor depression of transmission onto interneurons did not involve cAMP-dependent pathways. Thus, synaptic terminals arising from a common afferent pathway do not function as a single compartment but are specialized, depending on their postsynaptic target.

Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, Room 5A72, Building 49, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD 20892-4495, USA.
*   Present address: Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TH, UK.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chrismcb{at}codon.nih.gov

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