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Plasticity: LTP & LTD Flashcards

1
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Some patterns of synaptic activity produce a long-lasting increase in synaptic strength known as …

A

Long-term potentiation (LTP)

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Some patterns of synaptic activity produce a long-lasting decrease in synaptic strength known as …

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Long-term depression (LTD)

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3
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Long-term synaptic plasticity has been studied at excitatory/inhibitory synapses in the mammalian hippocampus/hypothalamus?

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Excitatory, hippocampus

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The hippocampus consists of 2 thin sheets o neurons folded onto each other, what is each sheet called

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Denate Gyrus and Ammon’s Horn

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5
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CA3 and CA1 are divisions from what sheet

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Ammon’s Horn

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6
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The Perforant path comes from…?

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the Entorhinal cortex

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The perforant path axons synapse on neurons of the _______

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Dentate Gyrus

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The Dentate gyrus gives rise to axons called____

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Mossy fibres

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9
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The axons from the Dentate gyrus synapse on cells in _____

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CA3

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10
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CA3 cells give rise to axons called____ and these synapse where?

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Schaffer collaterals synapse in CA1

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11
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LTP has focused on synaptic connections between ______

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Schaffer collaters and CA1 pyramidal cells

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12
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Electrical stimulation of Schaffer collaterals generates _______ postsynaptic potentials (__PSPs) in the postsynaptic CA1 cells

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Excitatory

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How is LTP caused?

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High requency train of stimuli to the same axons

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Where does LTP occur?

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All 3 excitatory synapses in the hippocampus, cortex, amygdala, cerebellum

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15
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Increase/decrease in synaptic strength = LTP

What happends to the amplitude?

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Increase in synpatic strength

Increase amplitude of AMPAr EPSC

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16
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What lobe is the hippocampus in?

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Temporal lobe

17
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LTP requires stong activity in…

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Both Pre and post synaptic neurons

18
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LTP occurs through depolarization of hyperpolarization?

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Depolarization postsynaptically

19
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Coincidence detector involves

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Co-ordinated activity of presynaptic transmitter release and depolarization of the postsynaptic neuron

20
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LTP is input specific, meaning?

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LTP is restircted to activated synapses rather than to all of the synapses on a given cell.

21
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Another properity of LTP is Associativity, what does this mean?

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Co-operative. If 1 path is weakly activated at the same time athat a neighbouring pathway onto the same cell is strongly activated, then both synaptic pathways undergo LTP.

22
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Describe the 3 phases of LTP..

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Induction: Stimulation that induces an increase in synaptic strength (blocking this phase inhibits the other phases). Though activation of NMDA receptors

Expression: How synaptic strength is increases

Maintenance: How to maintain the increase in synaptic strength. Through insertion of AMPA receptors

23
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How LTP works….

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  1. High frequency stimulation causes prolonged depolarization
  2. this expels Mg2+ from NMDA receptors
  3. Ca2+ can now enter though the NMDAr into the postsynaptic neuron.
  4. Ca2+ influx activates signal transduction cascades, including CaMKII & PKC
  5. CaMKII induces phosphorylation of AMPA receptors
  6. This causes more AMPA receptors to be inserted at the postsynaptic membrane, + Increases AMPAr conductance
  7. This Increase synapse strength = LTP
24
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Why does NMDA behave like a co-incidence detector?

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The channel wil only open when Glutamate is bound to the receptor + the post-synaptic cell is depolarized to relieve the Mg2+ block

25
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Describe the 3 methods of how LTP is induced…

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  • Tetanic Stimulation: breif bursts of high-frequency stimulation (100Hz), lasting 1 second, THREE times. Get high glutamate release, so opening of lots of AMPA r, so depolarizing postsynaptic cell
  • Pairing: 1 Hz presynaptic stimulation + postsynaptic depolarization by current injection
  • Theta-burst: stimulation by thythm oscillators 6-10 Hz
26
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What do you add during the induction phase to inhibit an increase in synaptic strength

27
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LTD occurs when the Schafer collaterals are stimulated at a ___-frequency rate of about ___Hz for short/long periods?

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low frequency rate ot 1Hz for long periods

28
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What determines if you get an LTP or LTD

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The nature of the Ca2+ signal: a small and slow rise in Ca2+ leads to depression

29
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LTD results from Ca2+ dependent phosphatases that……

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cleave phosphate groups from target molecules

30
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What happens to AMPA receptors as a result of LTD

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Loss of synaptic AMPA receptors, due to internalization of them into the postsynaptic cell

31
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How do you get LTD induction ?

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Though LFS: low frequency stimulation

32
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LFS is ___-___Hz for ___-___minutes

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0.5-1Hz for 5-10 minutes

33
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LTD is:

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A decrease in synaptic strength, decrease is amplitude of AMPA receptors

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