Activity maintains structural plasticity of mossy fiber terminals in the hippocampus

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences
Sabrina ChierziKeith K Murai

Abstract

Neural activity plays an important role in organizing and optimizing neural circuits during development and in the mature nervous system. However, the cellular events that underlie this process still remain to be fully understood. In this study, we investigated the role of neural activity in regulating the structural plasticity of presynaptic terminals in the hippocampal formation. We designed a virus to drive the Drosophila Allatostatin receptor in individual dentate granule neurons to suppress activity of complex mossy fiber terminals 'on-demand' in organotypic slices and used time-lapse confocal imaging to determine the impact on presynaptic remodeling. We found that activity played an important role in maintaining the structural plasticity of the core region of the mossy fiber terminal (MFT) that synapses onto CA3 pyramidal cell thorny excrescences but was not essential for the motility of terminal filopodial extensions that contact local inhibitory neurons. Short-term suppression of activity did not have an impact on the size of the MFT, however, longer-term suppression reduced the overall size of the MFT. Remarkably, global blockade of activity with tetrodotoxin (TTX) interfered with the ability of single cell activity de...Continue Reading

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