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TY - JOUR
T1 - System identification of metabotropic glutamate receptor dependent long–term depression
AU - Tambuyzer, T.
AU - Ahmed, T.
AU - Berckmans, D.
AU - Taylor, C. James
AU - Balschun, D.
AU - Aerts, J.-M.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Recent advances have started to uncover the underlying mechanisms of metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) dependent long-term depression (LTD). However, it is not completely clear how these mechanisms are linked and it is believed that several crucial mechanisms still remain to be revealed. In this study, we investigated whether system identification (SI) methods can be used to gain insight into the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity. SI methods have shown to be an objective and powerful approach for describing how sensory neurons encode information about stimuli. However, to the author’s knowledge it is the first time that SI methods are applied on electrophysiological brain slice recordings of synaptic plasticity responses. The results indicate that the SI approach is a valuable tool for reverse engineering of mGluR-LTD responses. It is suggested that such SI methods can aid to unravel the complexities of synaptic function.
AB - Recent advances have started to uncover the underlying mechanisms of metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) dependent long-term depression (LTD). However, it is not completely clear how these mechanisms are linked and it is believed that several crucial mechanisms still remain to be revealed. In this study, we investigated whether system identification (SI) methods can be used to gain insight into the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity. SI methods have shown to be an objective and powerful approach for describing how sensory neurons encode information about stimuli. However, to the author’s knowledge it is the first time that SI methods are applied on electrophysiological brain slice recordings of synaptic plasticity responses. The results indicate that the SI approach is a valuable tool for reverse engineering of mGluR-LTD responses. It is suggested that such SI methods can aid to unravel the complexities of synaptic function.
KW - synaptic plasticity
KW - metabotropic glutamate receptor dependent long-term depression
KW - hippocampus
KW - system identification
KW - dominant sub-processes
KW - discrete-time transfer function models
U2 - 10.1162/NECO_a_00408
DO - 10.1162/NECO_a_00408
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 650
EP - 670
JO - Neural Computation
JF - Neural Computation
SN - 1530-888X
IS - 3
ER -