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SCIENCE
卷 356, 期 6345, 页码 1352-+出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf4612
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- NIH [DC012833, MH097742, DC015388]
- American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC)
Circuits in the auditory cortex are highly susceptible to acoustic influences during an early postnatal critical period. The auditory cortex selectively expands neural representations of enriched acoustic stimuli, a process important for human language acquisition. Adults lack this plasticity. Here we show in the murine auditory cortex that juvenile plasticity can be reestablished in adulthood if acoustic stimuli are pairedwith disruption of ecto-5'-nucleotidase-dependent adenosine production or A(1)-adenosine receptor signaling in the auditory thalamus. This plasticity occurs at the level of cortical maps and individual neurons in the auditory cortex of awake adult mice and is associated with long-term improvement of tone-discrimination abilities. We conclude that, in adult mice, disrupting adenosine signaling in the thalamus rejuvenates plasticity in the auditory cortex and improves auditory perception.
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