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Cooperative Astrocyte and Dendritic Spine Dynamics at Hippocampal Excitatory Synapses

2006· article· en· 412 citations· W2035891650 on OpenAlex· 10.1523/jneurosci.1302-06.2006

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Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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Teacher disagreement score
0.058
Threshold uncertainty score
0.781
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread
0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Accumulating evidence is redefining the importance of neuron-glial interactions at synapses in the CNS. Astrocytes form "tripartite" complexes with presynaptic and postsynaptic structures and regulate synaptic transmission and plasticity. Despite our understanding of the importance of neuron-glial relationships in physiological contexts, little is known about the structural interplay between astrocytes and synapses. In the past, this has been difficult to explore because studies have been hampered by the lack of a system that preserves complex neuron-glial relationships observed in the brain. Here we present a system that can be used to characterize the intricate relationship between astrocytic processes and synaptic structures in situ using organotypic hippocampal slices, a preparation that retains the three-dimensional architecture of astrocyte-synapse interactions. Using time-lapse confocal imaging, we demonstrate that astrocytes can rapidly extend and retract fine processes to engage and disengage from motile postsynaptic dendritic spines. Surprisingly, astrocytic motility is, on average, higher than its dendritic spine counterparts and likely relies on actin-based cytoskeletal reorganization. Changes in astrocytic processes are typically coordinated with changes in spines, and astrocyte-spine interactions are stabilized at larger spines. Our results suggest that dynamic structural changes in astrocytes help control the degree of neuron-glial communication at hippocampal synapses.

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The record

Venue
Journal of Neuroscience
Topic
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Field
Neuroscience
Canadian institutions
McGill University Health CentreMontreal General Hospital
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchMcGill University Health CentreCanada Research ChairsMcGill University
Keywords
Dendritic spineNeuroscienceAstrocytePostsynaptic potentialDendritic filopodiaHippocampal formationBiologyExcitatory postsynaptic potentialNeuronSynaptic plasticitySynapseNeurotransmissionInhibitory postsynaptic potentialCentral nervous systemReceptor
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes