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Title:Rapid fluctuations in rat barrel cortex plasticity
Authors: Irina Erchova ; Mathew Diamond
Date:Jun 2004
Publication Title:Jounnal of Neuroscience
Publisher:Society for Neuroscience
Publication Type:Journal Article Publication Status:Published
Volume No:24(26) Page Nos:5931-5941
DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1202-04.2004
Abstract:
Neuronal populations in the sensory cortex exhibit fluctuations in excitability, and the present experiments tested the hypothesis that these variations coincide with peaks and troughs in cortical modifiability. The activity of multiunit neuronal clusters under light urethane anesthesia was recorded through 100-microelectrode arrays implanted in the infragranular layers of rat barrel cortex. Spontaneous activity was characterized by "bursts" of spikes, synchronized across the barrel cortex. This allowed activity at one selected electrode to be taken as a reliable monitor of widespread cortical bursts. We used spikes at the selected electrode to trigger stimulation of two pairs of whiskers during a 50 min conditioning procedure: (1) for the "burst-conditioned" whisker pair, each stimulus was delivered 1 msec after the triggering spike, activating cortex coincident with the burst; and (2) for the "interburst-conditioned" whisker pair, each stimulus was delivered 300 msec after the triggering spike, activating cortex during the trough between bursts. The cross-correlation between cortical neurons in the pairs of columns matching the stimulated whisker pairs was estimated after the termination of the conditioning procedure. Conditioning produced a twofold increase in the degree of co-firing between infragranular neurons in columns receiving burst-conditioned costimulation but no significant change in connectivity between infragranular neurons in columns receiving interburst-conditioned costimulation, although the two pairs of columns received an equal number of sensory inputs. These findings suggest that the strength of co-activity between columns in the barrel cortex can be modified by sensory input patterns during discrete, intermittent intervals time-locked to bursts.
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@Article{EDI-INF-RR-0927,
author = { Irina Erchova and Mathew Diamond },
title = {Rapid fluctuations in rat barrel cortex plasticity},
journal = {Jounnal of Neuroscience},
publisher = {Society for Neuroscience},
year = 2004,
month = {Jun},
volume = {24(26)},
pages = {5931-5941},
doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1202-04.2004},
url = {http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/24/26/5931},
}


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