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Autoregulatory and paracrine control of synaptic and behavioral plasticity by octopaminergic signaling.


ABSTRACT: Adrenergic signaling has important roles in synaptic plasticity and metaplasticity. However, the underlying mechanisms of these functions remain poorly understood. We investigated the role of octopamine, the invertebrate counterpart of adrenaline and noradrenaline, in synaptic and behavioral plasticity in Drosophila. We found that an increase in locomotor speed induced by food deprivation was accompanied by an activity- and octopamine-dependent extension of octopaminergic arbors and that the formation and maintenance of these arbors required electrical activity. Growth of octopaminergic arbors was controlled by a cAMP- and CREB-dependent positive-feedback mechanism that required Oct?2R octopamine autoreceptors. Notably, this autoregulation was necessary for the locomotor response. In addition, octopamine neurons regulated the expansion of excitatory glutamatergic neuromuscular arbors through Oct?2Rs on glutamatergic motor neurons. Our results provide a mechanism for global regulation of excitatory synapses, presumably to maintain synaptic and behavioral plasticity in a dynamic range.

SUBMITTER: Koon AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3391700 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Autoregulatory and paracrine control of synaptic and behavioral plasticity by octopaminergic signaling.

Koon Alex C AC   Ashley James J   Barria Romina R   DasGupta Shamik S   DasGupta Shamik S   Brain Ruth R   Waddell Scott S   Alkema Mark J MJ   Budnik Vivian V  

Nature neuroscience 20101226 2


Adrenergic signaling has important roles in synaptic plasticity and metaplasticity. However, the underlying mechanisms of these functions remain poorly understood. We investigated the role of octopamine, the invertebrate counterpart of adrenaline and noradrenaline, in synaptic and behavioral plasticity in Drosophila. We found that an increase in locomotor speed induced by food deprivation was accompanied by an activity- and octopamine-dependent extension of octopaminergic arbors and that the for  ...[more]

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