Multivesicular Release at Developing Schaffer Collateral-ca1 Synapses: an Analytic Approach to Describe Experimental Data.
From: Dipartimento di Fisica Umana e Farmacologia, University La Sapienza, Piazzale A Rome, Italy.
Journal of neurophysiology
- Publish Date: Jul 2006
- ISSN: 0022-3077
- Volume: 96
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 15-26
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Ricci-Tersenghi F, Minneci F, Sola E, et al. Multivesicular Release at Developing Schaffer Collateral-ca1 Synapses: an Analytic Approach to Describe Experimental Data.. J. Neurophysiol. Jul 2006;96:15-26
Abstract
We developed and analytically solved a simple and general stochastic model to distinguish the univesicular from the multivesicular mode of glutamate release. The model solution gives analytical mathematical expressions for average values of quantities that can be measured experimentally. Comparison of these quantities with the experimental measures allows one to discriminate the release mode and to determine the most probable values of model parameters. The model has been validated at glutamatergic CA3-CA1 synapses in the hippocampus from newborn (P1-P5 old) rats. Our results strongly support a multivesicular type of release process requiring a variable pool of immediately releasable vesicles. Moreover, computing quantities that are functions of the model parameters, the mean amplitude of the synaptic response to the release of a single vesicle (q) was estimated to be 5-10 pA, in very good agreement with experimental findings. In addition a multivesicular type of release was supported by the following experimental evidences: 1) a high variability of the amplitude of successes, with a coefficient of variation ranging from 0.12 to 0.73; 2) an average potency ratio a2/a1 between the second and first response to a pair of stimuli >1; and 3) changes in the potency of the synaptic response to the first stimulus when the release probability was modified by increasing or decreasing the extracellular calcium concentration. Our results indicate that at Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses of the neonatal rat hippocampus a single action potential may induce the release of more than one vesicle from the same release site.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Action Potentials, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Calcium, Electric Stimulation, Electrophysiology, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, Glutamic Acid, Hippocampus, Models, Theoretical, Pyramidal Cells, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Stochastic Processes, Synapses, Synaptic Vesicles
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