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Title: | Synaptic Homeostasis and Restructuring across the Sleep-Wake Cycle |
Authors: | Blanco, Wilfredo M. Pereira, Catia R. Cota, Vinicius C. Souza, Annie Rennó-Costa, César Santos, Sharlene Dias, Gabriella Guerreiro, Ana M. G. B. L. Tort, Adriano D. Neto, Adrião Ribeiro, Sidarta |
Keywords: | Synaptic Homeostasis;Sleep-Wake Cycle |
Issue Date: | 28-May-2015 |
Publisher: | Aldo A Faisal, Imperial College London, UNITED KINGDOM |
Citation: | Blanco W, Pereira CM, Cota VR, Souza AC, Rennó-Costa C, Santos S, et al. (2015) Synaptic Homeostasis and Restructuring across the SleepWake Cycle. PLoS Comput Biol 11(5): e1004241. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004241 |
Abstract: | Sleep is critical for hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation. However, the underlying mechanisms of synaptic plasticity are poorly understood. The central controversy is on whether long-term potentiation (LTP) takes a role during sleep and which would be its specific effect on memory. To address this question, we used immunohistochemistry to measure phosphorylation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (pCaMKIIα) in the rat hippocampus immediately after specific sleep-wake states were interrupted. Control animals not exposed to novel objects during waking (WK) showed stable pCaMKIIα levels across the sleep-wake cycle, but animals exposed to novel objects showed a decrease during subsequent slow-wave sleep (SWS) followed by a rebound during rapid-eye-movement sleep (REM). The levels of pCaMKIIα during REM were proportional to cortical spindles near SWS/REM transitions. Based on these results, we modeled sleep-dependent LTP on a network of fully connected excitatory neurons fed with spikes recorded from the rat hippocampus across WK, SWS and REM. Sleep without LTP orderly rescaled synaptic weights to a narrow range of intermediate values. In contrast, LTP triggered near the SWS/REM transition led to marked swaps in synaptic weight ranking. To better understand the interaction between rescaling and restructuring during sleep, we implemented synaptic homeostasis and embossing in a detailed hippocampal-cortical model with both excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Synaptic homeostasis was implemented by weakening potentiation and strengthening depression, while synaptic embossing was simulated by evoking LTP on selected synapses. We observed that synaptic homeostasis facilitates controlled synaptic restructuring. The results imply a mechanism for a cognitive synergy between SWS and REM, and suggest that LTP at the SWS/REM transition critically influences the effect of sleep: Its lack determines synaptic homeostasis, its presence causes synaptic restructuring. |
URI: | https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19073 |
ISSN: | 1553-734X |
Appears in Collections: | ICe - Artigos publicados em periódicos |
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