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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 11, Pages 3017-3029Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4037-06.2007
Keywords
consolidation; synaptic plasticity; actin; phalloidin; cofilin; PAK
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG00358] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS051823, NS051823, P01 NS045260, NS45260, NS37799, R01 NS037799] Funding Source: Medline
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is an extremely potent, positive modulator of theta burst induced long-term potentiation (LTP) in the adult hippocampus. The present studies tested whether the neurotrophin exerts its effects by facilitating cytoskeletal changes in dendritic spines. BDNF caused no changes in phalloidin labeling of filamentous actin (F-actin) when applied alone to rat hippocampal slices but markedly enhanced the number of densely labeled spines produced by a threshold level of theta burst stimulation. Conversely, the BDNF scavenger TrkB-Fc completely blocked increases in spine F-actin produced by suprathreshold levels of theta stimulation. TrkB-Fc also blocked LTP consolidation when applied 1 - 2 min, but not 10 min, after theta trains. Additional experiments confirmed that p21 activated kinase and cofilin, two actin-regulatory proteins implicated in spine morphogenesis, are concentrated in spines in mature hippocampus and further showed that both undergo rapid, dose-dependent phosphorylation after infusion of BDNF. These results demonstrate that the influence of BDNF on the actin cytoskeleton is retained into adulthood in which it serves to positively modulate the time-dependent LTP consolidation process.
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