2019
Using holographic illumination to study synaptic signal integration at individual dendritic spines
Weng J, Celis C, Zecevic D. Using holographic illumination to study synaptic signal integration at individual dendritic spines. 2019, 10865: 1086514. DOI: 10.1117/12.2507284.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSynaptic signal integrationExcitatory synaptic potentialsDendritic spinesSynaptic potentialsTemporal summationAcute cortical brain slicesIndividual synapsesLayer 5 pyramidal neuronsIndividual excitatory synapsesThin basal dendritesCortical brain slicesVoltage-sensitive dye recordingIndividual dendritic spinesSite of originSensory information processingBasal dendritesPyramidal neuronsExcitatory synapsesBrain slicesRepetitive activationVoltage-sensitive dyeSomatic recordingsSingle synapsesSynaptic signalsIndividual neurons
2010
Rapid time course of action potentials in spines and remote dendrites of mouse visual cortex neurons
Holthoff K, Zecevic D, Konnerth A. Rapid time course of action potentials in spines and remote dendrites of mouse visual cortex neurons. The Journal Of Physiology 2010, 588: 1085-1096. PMID: 20156851, PMCID: PMC2852997, DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.184960.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRapid time courseAction potentialsDendritic spinesIndividual dendritic spinesLayer 5 pyramidal neuronsTime courseTiming-dependent synaptic plasticityDendritic branchesCentral mammalian neuronsTerminal dendritic branchesVisual cortex neuronsTerminal branchesSomatic action potentialsIndividual spinesRemote dendritesPyramidal neuronsApical dendritesCortex neuronsExcitatory synapsesSupralinear integrationSynaptic inputsVoltage-sensitive dyeJuvenile miceSynaptic plasticityVisual cortex