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Functional mapping of single spines in cortical neurons in vivo.
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The individual functional properties and spatial arrangement of afferent synaptic inputs on dendrites have a critical role in the processing of information by neurons in the mammalian brain. Although recent work has identified visually-evoked local dendritic calcium signals in the rodent visual cortex, sensory-evoked signalling on the level of dendritic spines, corresponding to individual afferent excitatory synapses, remains unexplored. Here we used a new variant of high-resolution two-photon imaging to detect sensory-evoked calcium transients in single dendritic spines of mouse cortical neurons in vivo. Calcium signals evoked by sound stimulation required the activation of NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors. Active spines are widely distributed on basal and apical dendrites and pure-tone stimulation at different frequencies revealed both narrowly and widely tuned spines. Notably, spines tuned for different frequencies were highly interspersed on the same dendrites: even neighbouring spines were mostly tuned to different frequencies. Thus, our results demonstrate that NMDA-receptor-dependent single-spine synaptic inputs to the same dendrite are highly heterogeneous. Furthermore, our study opens the way for in vivo mapping of functionally defined afferent sensory inputs with single-synapse resolution.
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“Combining in vivo whole-cell patch recording and single spine calcium imaging, a recent work has shown that spines tuned for different peak frequencies are interspersed along dendrites of pyramidal neurons in the mouse auditory cortex (Chen et al., 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chen, X., Leischner, U., Rochefort, N. L., Nelken, I., & Konnerth, A.
- Affiliations
- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (DE)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Konnerth, Arthur
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2011-06-26
- Volume
- 475
- Issue
- 7357
- Pages
- 501-505
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1985450720
- Cited by
- 395
- References
- 43
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- FWCI
- 15.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- dendritic spines, auditory cortex, NMDA receptor, frequency tuning, dendritic integration, two-photon calcium imaging, mouse auditory cortex, in vivo imaging
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Animals, Brain Mapping, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Visual Cortex, Calcium Signaling, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton, Dendritic Spines, Mice
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