Spike timing-dependent selective strengthening of single climbing fibre inputs to Purkinje cells during cerebellar development

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Shaping functional neural circuits in developing brain involves activity-dependent refinement of early-formed redundant synapses. In the developing cerebellum, a one-to-one connection between a climbing fibre (CF) and a Purkinje cell (PC) is established by selective strengthening of a single CF followed by elimination of surplus CFs. Here we investigate developmental changes in CF-mediated responses in PCs by using in vivo whole-cell recordings and two-photon Ca 2+ imaging. We show that each neonatal PC receives temporally clustered inputs from multiple CFs and temporal integration of these inputs is required to induce burst spiking and Ca 2+ rise in PCs. Importantly, a single CF input closest to PC's spike output is selectively strengthened during postnatal development. This spike timing-dependent selective strengthening is much less prominent in PC-selective P/Q-type voltage-dependent Ca 2+ channel knockout mice. Thus, spike timing- and Ca 2+ -dependent plasticity appears to underlie the selection of a single 'winner' CF and the establishment of mature CF-PC connections. © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.

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Kawamura, Y., Nakayama, H., Hashimoto, K., Sakimura, K., Kitamura, K., & Kano, M. (2013). Spike timing-dependent selective strengthening of single climbing fibre inputs to Purkinje cells during cerebellar development. Nature Communications, 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3732

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