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Abstract

Serotonin (5-HT) induces both short-term and long-term facilitation of the identified synaptic connections between sensory and motor neurons of Aplysia . Three independent experimental approaches showed that long-term facilitation can normally be expressed in the absence of short-term facilitation: (i) The 5-HT antagonist cyproheptadine blocked the induction of short-term but not long-term facilitation; (ii) concentrations of 5-HT below threshold for the induction of short-term facilitation nonetheless induced long-term facilitation; and (iii) localized application of 5-HT to the sensory neuron cell body and proximal synapses induced long-term facilitation in distal synapses that were not exposed to 5-HT and had not expressed short-term facilitation. These results suggest that short-term and long-term synaptic facilitation are induced in parallel in the sensory neurons and that the short-term process, because it is induced and expressed at the synapse, can occur locally, but the long-term process, because of its dependence on a nuclear signal, is expressed throughout the neuron.

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Emptage, N. J., & Carew, T. J. (1993). Long-Term Synaptic Facilitation in the Absence of Short-Term Facilitation in Aplysia Neurons. Science, 262(5131), 253–256.

Authors 2
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  2. Thomas J. Carew (additional)
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@article{Emptage_1993, title={Long-Term Synaptic Facilitation in the Absence of Short-Term Facilitation in Aplysia Neurons}, volume={262}, ISSN={1095-9203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.8211146}, DOI={10.1126/science.8211146}, number={5131}, journal={Science}, publisher={American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}, author={Emptage, Nigel J. and Carew, Thomas J.}, year={1993}, month=oct, pages={253–256} }