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Judit K Makara1, Attila Losonczy, Quan Wen, Jeffrey C Magee.
Abstract
The excitability of individual dendritic branches is a plastic property of neurons. We found that experience in an enriched environment increased propagation of dendritic Na(+) spikes in a subset of individual dendritic branches in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons and that this effect was mainly mediated by localized downregulation of A-type K(+) channel function. Thus, dendritic plasticity might be used to store recent experience in individual branches of the dendritic arbor.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19898470 DOI: 10.1038/nn.2428
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN: 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884