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Experience-dependent, rapid structural changes in hippocampal pyramidal cell spines.


ABSTRACT: Morphological changes in dendritic spines may contribute to the fine tuning of neural network connectivity. The relationship between spine morphology and experience-dependent neuronal activity, however, is largely unknown. In the present study, we combined 2 histological analyses to examine this relationship: 1) Measurement of spines of neurons whose morphology was visualized in brain sections of mice expressing membrane-targeted green fluorescent protein (Thy1-mGFP mice) and 2) Categorization of CA1 neurons by immunohistochemical monitoring of Arc expression as a putative marker of recent neuronal activity. After mice were exposed to a novel, enriched environment for 60 min, neurons that expressed Arc had fewer small spines and more large spines than Arc-negative cells. These differences were not observed when the exploration time was shortened to 15 min. This net-balanced structural change is consistent with both synapse-specific enhancement and suppression. These results provide the first evidence of rapid morphological changes in spines that were preferential to a subset of neurons in association with an animal's experiences.

SUBMITTER: Kitanishi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2758678 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Experience-dependent, rapid structural changes in hippocampal pyramidal cell spines.

Kitanishi Takuma T   Ikegaya Yuji Y   Matsuki Norio N   Yamada Maki K MK  

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20090224 11


Morphological changes in dendritic spines may contribute to the fine tuning of neural network connectivity. The relationship between spine morphology and experience-dependent neuronal activity, however, is largely unknown. In the present study, we combined 2 histological analyses to examine this relationship: 1) Measurement of spines of neurons whose morphology was visualized in brain sections of mice expressing membrane-targeted green fluorescent protein (Thy1-mGFP mice) and 2) Categorization o  ...[more]

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