Abstract
The adult olfactory bulb and hippocampus are continuously supplied with newborn neurons that are thought to possess a capacity for plasticity only at a young neuronal age, mainly during the early stages of integration into the network. We find that the two main types of adult-born neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb undergo experience-dependent plasticity long after maturation and integration, as evidenced by stabilization of synaptic turnover rates. Thus, the potential time window for plasticity of adult-born neurons extends well into maturity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 26-28 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Nature Neuroscience |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank H. Spors (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany) for the analysis software for the intrinsic signals. We thank Y. Adam for assistance with surgical procedures. We thank members of the Mizrahi laboratory and D. Nachmani for discussions and for commenting on the manuscript. This work was supported by European Research Council (203994) and ERA-NET (0398216) grants to A.M. Y.L. is supported by the Adams Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.