Title |
GABA promotes the competitive selection of dendritic spines by controlling local Ca2+ signaling
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Published in |
Nature Neuroscience, August 2013
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DOI | 10.1038/nn.3496 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Tatsuya Hayama, Jun Noguchi, Satoshi Watanabe, Noriko Takahashi, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Graham C R Ellis-Davies, Masanori Matsuzaki, Haruo Kasai |
Abstract |
Activity-dependent competition of synapses plays a key role in neural organization and is often promoted by GABA; however, its cellular bases are poorly understood. Excitatory synapses of cortical pyramidal neurons are formed on small protrusions known as dendritic spines, which exhibit structural plasticity. We used two-color uncaging of glutamate and GABA in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons and found that spine shrinkage and elimination were markedly promoted by the activation of GABAA receptors shortly before action potentials. GABAergic inhibition suppressed bulk increases in cytosolic Ca(2+) concentrations, whereas it preserved the Ca(2+) nanodomains generated by NMDA-type receptors, both of which were necessary for spine shrinkage. Unlike spine enlargement, spine shrinkage spread to neighboring spines (<15 μm) and competed with their enlargement, and this process involved the actin-depolymerizing factor ADF/cofilin. Thus, GABAergic inhibition directly suppresses local dendritic Ca(2+) transients and strongly promotes the competitive selection of dendritic spines. |
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