Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Location-dependent synaptic plasticity rules by dendritic spine cooperativity

  • Jens P. Weber,
  • Bertalan K. Andrásfalvy,
  • Marina Polito,
  • Ádám Magó,
  • Balázs B. Ujfalussy,
  • Judit K. Makara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11380
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Inputs to functionally related synapses have been suggested to show cooperative summation, although the rules governing these interactions are unclear. Here, Weber et al. uncover non-linear interactions dependent on NMDAR signalling that vary across the proximal-distal axis of individual dendrites.