Spike timing-dependent selective strengthening of single climbing fibre inputs to Purkinje cells during cerebellar development

Yoshinobu Kawamura, Hisako Nakayama, Kouichi Hashimoto, Kenji Sakimura, Kazuo Kitamura () and Masanobu Kano ()
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Yoshinobu Kawamura: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Hisako Nakayama: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Kouichi Hashimoto: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Kenji Sakimura: Brain Research Institute, Niigata University
Kazuo Kitamura: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Masanobu Kano: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Nature Communications, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Shaping functional neural circuits in developing brain involves activity-dependent refinement of early-formed redundant synapses. In the developing cerebellum, a one-to-one connection between a climbing fibre (CF) and a Purkinje cell (PC) is established by selective strengthening of a single CF followed by elimination of surplus CFs. Here we investigate developmental changes in CF-mediated responses in PCs by using in vivo whole-cell recordings and two-photon Ca2+ imaging. We show that each neonatal PC receives temporally clustered inputs from multiple CFs and temporal integration of these inputs is required to induce burst spiking and Ca2+ rise in PCs. Importantly, a single CF input closest to PC’s spike output is selectively strengthened during postnatal development. This spike timing-dependent selective strengthening is much less prominent in PC-selective P/Q-type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel knockout mice. Thus, spike timing- and Ca2+-dependent plasticity appears to underlie the selection of a single ‘winner’ CF and the establishment of mature CF–PC connections.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3732

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