Gibon J, Buckley S, Unsain N, Kaartinen V, Séguéla P, Barker P (2015) proBDNF and p75NTR control excitability and persistent firing of cortical pyramidal neurons. J Neurosci 35:9741-9753. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4655-14.2015 PMID: 26134656
Summary: Principal neurons in the entorhinal cortex (EC) display persistent firing (PF) during working-memory tasks. Much of the communication between the hippocampus and the neocortex passes through the EC, and the EC also receives some cholinergic input from the medial septum and diagonal band of Broca. In this work the authors investigated the role of pro-brain-derived neurotrophic factor (proBDNF) and the p75 receptor in excitability and PF in the EC. The authors propose the proBDNF/p75 system as a regulator for pyramidal neuron excitability and PF in the EC, preventing runaway activity. Some of the western blot and current-clamp data was generated using Anti-p75 (Cat. #AB-N01; no concentration information provided).
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