Synaptic tagging and capture in the living rat

Shires, Katherine L., Da Silva, B. M., Hawthorne, J. P., Morris, R. G. M. and Martin, S. J. 2012. Synaptic tagging and capture in the living rat. Nature Communications 3 , 1246. 10.1038/ncomms2250

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Abstract

In isolated hippocampal slices, decaying long-term potentiation can be stabilized and converted to late long-term potentiation lasting many hours, by prior or subsequent strong high-frequency tetanization of an independent input to a common population of neurons—a phenomenon known as ‘synaptic tagging and capture’. Here we show that the same phenomenon occurs in the intact rat. Late long-term potentiation can be induced in CA1 during the inhibition of protein synthesis if an independent input is strongly tetanized beforehand. Conversely, declining early long-term potentiation induced by weak tetanization can be converted into lasting late long-term potentiation by subsequent strong tetanization of a separate input. These findings indicate that synaptic tagging and capture is not limited to in vitro preparations; the past and future activity of neurons has a critical role in determining the persistence of synaptic changes in the living animal, thus providing a bridge between cellular studies of protein synthesis-dependent synaptic potentiation and behavioural studies of memory persistence.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	2041-1723
Date of Acceptance:	1 November 2012
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2020 01:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67840

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