Cited by 1,198Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology ResearchVisual perception and processing mechanismsNeurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 10 of the 10 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

BDNF Regulates the Maturation of Inhibition and the Critical Period of Plasticity in Mouse Visual Cortex

Open access

Abstract

Maturation of the visual cortex is influenced by visual experience during an early postnatal period. The factors that regulate such a critical period remain unclear. We examined the maturation and plasticity of the visual cortex in transgenic mice in which the postnatal rise of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) was accelerated. In these mice, the maturation of GABAergic innervation and inhibition was accelerated. Furthermore, the age-dependent decline of cortical long-term potentiation induced by white matter stimulation, a form of synaptic plasticity sensitive to cortical inhibition, occurred earlier. Finally, transgenic mice showed a precocious development of visual acuity and an earlier termination of the critical period for ocular dominance plasticity. We propose that BDNF promotes the maturation of cortical inhibition during early postnatal life, thereby regulating the critical period for visual cortical plasticity.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81509-3

Cites

10 of 10 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 75

  1. Akaneya, 1997, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor enhances long-term potentiation in rat visual cortex, J. Neurosci., 17, 6707, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.17-17-06707.1997 · DOI
  2. Artola, 1987, Long-term potentiation and NMDA receptors in rat visual cortex, Nature, 330, 649, 10.1038/330649a0 · DOI
  3. Bear, 1987, A physiological basis for a theory of synapse modification, Science, 237, 42, 10.1126/science.3037696 · DOI
  4. Benevento, 1992, The effects of dark-rearing on the electrophysiology of the rat visual cortex, Brain Res., 572, 198, 10.1016/0006-8993(92)90470-T · DOI
  5. Benevento, 1995, gamma-aminobutyric acid and somatostatin immunoreactivity in the visual cortex of normal and dark-reared rats, Brain Res., 689, 172, 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00553-3 · DOI
  6. Birch, 1979, Spatial contrast sensitivity in albino and pigmented rats, Vision Res., 19, 933, 10.1016/0042-6989(79)90029-4 · DOI
  7. Blochl, 1995, Characterization of nerve growth factor (NGF) release from hippocampal neurons, Eur. J. Neurosci., 7, 1220, 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1995.tb01112.x · DOI
  8. Blue, 1983, The formation and maturation of synapses in the visual cortex of the rat. II. Quantitative analysis, J. Neurocytol., 12, 697, 10.1007/BF01181531 · DOI
  9. Bonhoeffer, 1996, Neurotrophins and activity-dependent development of the neocortex, Curr. Opin. Neurobiol., 6, 119, 10.1016/S0959-4388(96)80017-1 · DOI
  10. Boothe, 1985, Postantal development of vision in humans and in non human primates, Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 8, 495, 10.1146/annurev.ne.08.030185.002431 · DOI
  11. Bozzi, 1995, Monocular deprivation decreases the expression of messenger RNA for brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the rat visual cortex, Neuroscience, 69, 1133, 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00321-9 · DOI
  12. Burgin, 1990, In situ hybridization histochemistry of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase in developing rat brain, J. Neurosci., 10, 1788, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.10-06-01788.1990 · DOI
  13. Cabelli, 1995, Inhibition of ocular dominance column formation by infusion of NT-4/5 or BDNF, Science, 267, 1662, 10.1126/science.7886458 · DOI · Paper page
  14. Campbell, 1965, Optical and retinal factors affecting visual resolution, J. Physiol. (Lond.), 181, 576, 10.1113/jphysiol.1965.sp007784 · DOI
  15. Carmignoto, 1992, Activity-dependent decrease in NMDA receptor responses during development of the visual cortex, Science, 258, 1007, 10.1126/science.1279803 · DOI
  16. Carmignoto, 1993, Effects of nerve growth factor on neuronal plasticity of the kitten visual cortex, J. Physiol. (Lond.), 464, 343, 10.1113/jphysiol.1993.sp019638 · DOI
  17. Cellerino, 1996, The distribution of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor trkB in parvalbumin-containing neurons of the rat visual cortex, Eur. J. Neurosci., 8, 1190, 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01287.x · DOI
  18. Cohen, 1991, NGF and excitatory neurotransmitters regulate survival and morphogenesis of cultured cerebellar Purkinje cells, J. Neurosci., 11, 462, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.11-02-00462.1991 · DOI
  19. Collazo, 1992, Cellular targets and trophic functions of neurotrophin-3 in the developing rat hippocampus, Neuron, 9, 643, 10.1016/0896-6273(92)90028-C · DOI
  20. Cynader, 1980, Prolonged sensitivity to monocular deprivation in dark-reared cats, J. Neurophysiol., 43, 1026, 10.1152/jn.1980.43.4.1026 · DOI
  21. Del Rio, 1994, The development of parvalbumin-immunoreactivity in the neocortex of the mouse, Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res., 81, 247, 10.1016/0165-3806(94)90311-5 · DOI · Paper page
  22. Del Rio, 1992, Development of GABA-immunoreactivity in the neocortex of the mouse, J. Comp. Neurol., 326, 501, 10.1002/cne.903260403 · DOI
  23. Diamond, 1992, Endogenous NGF and nerve impulses regulate the collateral sprouting of sensory axons in the skin of the adult rat, J. Neurosci., 12, 1454, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.12-04-01454.1992 · DOI
  24. Drager, 1975, Receptive fields of single cells and topography in mouse visual cortex, J. Comp. Neurol., 160, 269, 10.1002/cne.901600302 · DOI
  25. Drager, 1980, Origins of crossed and uncrossed retinal projections in pigmented and albino mice, J. Comp. Neurol., 191, 383, 10.1002/cne.901910306 · DOI · Paper page
  26. Dupuy, 1996, Prominent expression of two forms of glutamate decarboxylase in the embryonic and early postnatal rat hippocampal formation, J. Neurosci., 16, 6919, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.16-21-06919.1996 · DOI
  27. Esclapez, 1994, Comparative localization of two forms of glutamic acid decarboxylase and their mRNAs in rat brain supports the concept of functional differences between the forms, J. Neurosci., 14, 1834, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.14-03-01834.1994 · DOI
  28. Fagiolini, 1994, Functional postnatal development of the rat primary visual cortex and the role of visual experience, Vision Res., 34, 709, 10.1016/0042-6989(94)90210-0 · DOI
  29. Freeman, 1975, Visual acuity development coincides with the sensitive period in kittens, Nature, 254, 614, 10.1038/254614a0 · DOI
  30. Galuske, 1996, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor reversed experience-dependent synaptic modifications in kitten visual cortex, Eur. J. Neurosci., 8, 1554, 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01618.x · DOI · Paper page
  31. Ghosh, 1995, Distinct roles for bFGF and NT-3 in the regulation of cortical neurogenesis, Neuron, 15, 89, 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90067-5 · DOI
  32. Gianfranceschi, 1999, Behavioral visual acuity of the wild-type and bcl-2 mouse, Vision Res., 39, 569, 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00169-2 · DOI
  33. Gonchar, 1997, Three distinct families of GABAergic neurons in rat visual cortex, Cereb. Cortex, 7, 347, 10.1093/cercor/7.4.347 · DOI
  34. Goodman, 1993, Developmental mechanisms that generate precise patterns of neuronal connectivity, Cell, 72, 77, 10.1016/S0092-8674(05)80030-3 · DOI
  35. Gorba, 1999, Expression of TrkB and TrkC but not BDNF mRNA in neurochemically identified interneurons in rat visual cortex in vivo and in organotypic cultures, Eur. J. Neurosci., 11, 1179, 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00551.x · DOI
  36. Gordon, 1996, Experience-dependent plasticity of binocular responses in the primary visual cortex of the mouse, J. Neurosci., 16, 3274, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.16-10-03274.1996 · DOI
  37. Hata, 1994, Control of thalamocortical afferent rearrangement by postsynaptic activity in developing visual cortex, Science, 265, 1732, 10.1126/science.8085163 · DOI
  38. Hensch, 1998, Local GABA circuit control of experience-dependent plasticity in developing visual cortex, Science, 282, 1504, 10.1126/science.282.5393.1504 · DOI · Paper page
  39. Hicks, 1983, Receptive field size for certain neurons in primary somatosensory cortex is determined by GABA-mediated intracortical inhibition, Brain Res., 274, 160, 10.1016/0006-8993(83)90533-4 · DOI
  40. Huber, 1998, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor alters the synaptic modification threshold in visual cortex, Neuropharmacology, 37, 571, 10.1016/S0028-3908(98)00050-1 · DOI
  41. Ip, 1993, Cultured hippocampal neurons show responses to BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4, but not NGF, J. Neurosci., 13, 3394, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.13-08-03394.1993 · DOI
  42. Jones, 1994, Targeted disruption of the BDNF gene perturbs brain and sensory neuron development but not motor neuron development, Cell, 76, 989, 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90377-8 · DOI
  43. Kang, 1995, Long-lasting neurotrophin-induced enhancement of synaptic transmission in the adult hippocampus, Science, 267, 1658, 10.1126/science.7886457 · DOI · Paper page
  44. Kato, 1991, Developmental changes in the susceptibility to long-term potentiation of neurons in rat visual cortex slices, Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res., 60, 43, 10.1016/0165-3806(91)90153-A · DOI
  45. Kirkwood, 1994, Hebbian synapses in visual cortex, J. Neurosci., 14, 1634, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.14-03-01634.1994 · DOI
  46. Kirkwood, 1995, Co-regulation of long-term potentiation and experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in visual cortex by age and experience, Nature, 375, 328, 10.1038/375328a0 · DOI
  47. Kirkwood, 1997, Age-dependent decrease of synaptic plasticity in the neocortex of αCaMKII mutant mice, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 94, 3380, 10.1073/pnas.94.7.3380 · DOI
  48. Komatsu, 1983, Development of cortical inhibition in kitten striate cortex investigated by a slice preparation, Dev. Brain Res., 8, 136, 10.1016/0165-3806(83)90165-7 · DOI
  49. Liu, 1996, Localization of alpha type II calcium calmodulin-dependent protein kinase at glutamatergic but not gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic) synapses in thalamus and cerebral cortex, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 7332, 10.1073/pnas.93.14.7332 · DOI · Paper page
  50. Lo, 1995, Neurotrophic factors and synaptic plasticity, Neuron, 15, 979, 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90085-3 · DOI
  51. Lohof, 1993, Potentiation of developing neuromuscular synapses by the neurotrophins NT-3 and BDNF, Nature, 363, 350, 10.1038/363350a0 · DOI · Paper page
  52. Luhmann, 1991, Postnatal maturation of the GABAergic system in rat neocortex, J. Neurophysiol., 65, 247, 10.1152/jn.1991.65.2.247 · DOI
  53. Maffei, 1992, Nerve growth factor (NGF) prevents the shift in ocular dominance distribution of visual cortical neurons in monocularly deprived rats, J. Neurosci., 12, 4651, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.12-12-04651.1992 · DOI · Paper page
  54. Martin, 1993, Regulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid synthesis in the brain, J. Neurochem., 60, 395, 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1993.tb03165.x · DOI
  55. Marty, 1996, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor promotes the differentiation of various hippocampal nonpyramidal neurons, including Cajal-Retzius cells, in organotypic slice cultures, J. Neurosci., 16, 675, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.16-02-00675.1996 · DOI
  56. Marty, 1997, Neurotrophins and activity-dependent plasticity of cortical interneurons, Trends Neurosci., 20, 198, 10.1016/S0166-2236(96)01026-0 · DOI
  57. Mayford, 1995, CaMKII regulates the frequency-response function of hippocampal synapses for the production of both LTD and LTP, Cell, 81, 891, 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90009-8 · DOI
  58. McAllister, 1995, Neurotrophins regulate dendritic growth in developing visual cortex, Neuron, 15, 791, 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90171-X · DOI · Paper page
  59. Micheva, 1997, Development and plasticity of the inhibitory neocortical circuitry with an emphasis on the rodent barrel field cortex, Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol., 75, 470, 10.1139/y97-032 · DOI
  60. Nawa, 1994, Intraventricular administration of BDNF increases neuropeptide expression in newborn rat brain, J. Neurosci., 14, 3751, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.14-06-03751.1994 · DOI
  61. Patterson, 1992, Neurotrophin expression in rat hippocampal slices, Neuron, 9, 1081, 10.1016/0896-6273(92)90067-N · DOI · Paper page
  62. Perkins, 1988, A critical period for long-term potentiation in the developing rat visual cortex, Brain Res., 439, 222, 10.1016/0006-8993(88)91478-3 · DOI
  63. Porciatti, 1999, The visual physiology of the wild-type mouse determined with pattern VEPs, Vision Res., in press
  64. Reetz, 1991, GABA and pancreatic beta-cells, EMBO J., 10, 1275, 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb08069.x · DOI
  65. Reiter, 1988, Neural plasticity without postsynaptic action potentials, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 85, 3623, 10.1073/pnas.85.10.3623 · DOI
  66. Riddle, 1995, NT-4-mediated rescue of lateral geniculate neurons from effects of monocular deprivation, Nature, 378, 189, 10.1038/378189a0 · DOI
  67. Rutherford, 1997, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor mediates the activity-dependent regulation of inhibition in neocortical cultures, J. Neurosci., 17, 4527, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.17-12-04527.1997 · DOI · Paper page
  68. Rutherford, 1998, BDNF has opposite effects on the quantal amplitude of pyramidal neuron and interneuron excitatory synapses, Neuron., 21, 521, 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80563-2 · DOI · Paper page
  69. Shi, 1994, Amino acid residues 24–31 but not palmitoylation of cysteines 30 and 45 are required for membrane anchoring of glutamic acid decarboxylase, GAD65, J. Cell Biol., 124, 927, 10.1083/jcb.124.6.927 · DOI
  70. Sillito, 1979, Inhibitory mechanisms influencing complex cell orientation selectivity and their modification at high resting discharge levels, J. Physiol. (Lond.), 289, 33, 10.1113/jphysiol.1979.sp012723 · DOI
  71. Thoenen, 1995, Neurotrophins and neuronal plasticity, Science, 270, 593, 10.1126/science.270.5236.593 · DOI · Paper page
  72. Wang, 1995, Neurotrophins promote maturation of developing neuromuscular synapses, J. Neurosci., 15, 4796, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.15-07-04796.1995 · DOI
  73. Widmer, 1994, Stimulation of GABAergic neuron differentiation by NT-4/5 in cultures of rat cerebral cortex, Brain Res. Dev. Brain Res., 80, 279, 10.1016/0165-3806(94)90114-7 · DOI
  74. Wolff, 1984, Development of GABAergic neurons in rat visual cortex as identified by glutamate decarboxylase-like immunoreactivity, Neurosci. Lett., 47, 207, 10.1016/0304-3940(84)90515-9 · DOI
  75. Yan, 1997, Expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor protein in the adult rat central nervous system, Neuroscience, 78, 431, 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00613-6 · DOI

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 1,198

Metadata

Authors
Huang, Z. J., Kirkwood, A., Pizzorusso, T., Porciatti, V., Morales, B., Bear, M. F., Maffei, L., & Tonegawa, S.
Affiliations
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Scuola Normale Superiore (IT)
Corresponding author
Tonegawa, Susumu
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-09
Volume
98
Issue
6
Pages
739-755
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2149858533
Cited by
1,198
References
10
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 56 · 2017: 55 · 2016: 60 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 49 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 42
FWCI
10.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Institutional Repository (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion)
  • Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Eye Institute (R01EY12124-01, R01EY012124)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-32925, R01NS032925)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Keywords
brain-derived neurotrophic factor, visual cortex maturation, critical period, ocular dominance plasticity, cortical inhibition, GABAergic innervation, long-term potentiation, white matter stimulation, visual acuity development, postnatal development, transgenic mice
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Base Sequence, Cerebral Cortex, Evoked Potentials, Interneurons, Mice, Transgenic, Molecular Sequence Data, Neural Inhibition, Neuronal Plasticity, Parvalbumins, Perception, Recombinant Proteins, Time Factors, Tissue Distribution, Visual Acuity, Visual Cortex, Prosencephalon, Long-Term Potentiation, Pyramidal Cells, Receptors, GABA, Transgenes, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Mice

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review