Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Excitatory synaptic dysfunction cell-autonomously decreases inhibitory inputs and disrupts structural and functional plasticity

  • Hai-yan He,
  • Wanhua Shen,
  • Lijun Zheng,
  • Xia Guo,
  • Hollis T. Cline

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05125-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Both inhibitory and excitatory input development are shaped by activity, but one may be dependent on the other. Here, the authors examine plasticity of inhibitory inputs in vivo, as well as behavioral consequences in tadpoles where excitatory transmission has been impaired.