Dopamine Modulates Homeostatic Excitatory Synaptic Plasticity of Immature Dentate Granule Cells in Entorhino-Hippocampal Slice Cultures

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
Andreas StrehlAndreas Vlachos

Abstract

Homeostatic plasticity mechanisms maintain neurons in a stable state. To what extent these mechanisms are relevant during the structural and functional maturation of neural tissue is poorly understood. To reveal developmental changes of a major homeostatic plasticity mechanism, i.e., homeostatic excitatory synaptic plasticity, we analyzed 1-week- and 4-week-old entorhino-hippocampal slice cultures and investigated the ability of immature and mature dentate granule cells (GCs) to express this form of plasticity. Our experiments demonstrate that immature GCs are capable of adjusting their excitatory synaptic strength in a compensatory manner at early postnatal stages, i.e., in 1-week-old preparations, as is the case for mature GCs. This ability of immature dentate GCs is absent in 4-week-old slice cultures. Further investigations into the signaling pathways reveal an important role of dopamine (DA), which prevents homeostatic synaptic up-scaling of immature GCs in young cultures, whereas it does not affect immature and mature GCs in 4-week-old preparations. Together, these results disclose the ability of immature GCs to express homeostatic synaptic plasticity during early postnatal development. They hint toward a novel role of do...Continue Reading

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