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Synaptic metaplasticity underlies tetanic potentiation in Lymnaea: a novel paradigm

Biological Physics 2014-03-05 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Neurons and Cognition

Abstract

We present a mathematical model which explains and interprets a novel form of short-term potentiation, which was found to be use-, but not time-dependent, in experiments done on Lymnaea neurons. The high degree of potentiation is explained using a model of synaptic metaplasticity, while the use-dependence (which is critically reliant on the presence of kinase in the experiment) is explained using a model of a stochastic and bistable biological switch.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0218,
  title  = {Synaptic metaplasticity underlies tetanic potentiation in Lymnaea: a novel paradigm},
  author = {Anita Mehta and Jean-Marc Luck and Collin C. Luk and Naweed I. Syed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0218},
  year   = {2014}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures, to appear in PLoS One (2013)