%0 Journal Article %T Train stimulation of parallel fibre to Purkinje cell inputs reveals two populations of synaptic responses with different receptor signatures %+ Yale University School of Medicine %+ Laboratoire de physiologie cérébrale (LPC - UMR 8118) %A Devi, Suma Priya Sudarsana %A Howe, James %A Auger, Céline %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0022-3751 %J The Journal of Physiology %I Wiley %V 594 %N 13 %P 3705-3727 %8 2016-07-01 %D 2016 %R 10.1113/jp272415 %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]Journal articles %X Cerebellar granule cells fire in bursts, and their parallel fibre axons (PFs) form ∼180,000 excitatory synapses onto the dendritic tree of a Purkinje cell. As many as 85% of these synapses have been proposed to be silent, but most are labelled for AMPA receptors. Here, we studied PF to Purkinje cell synapses using trains of 100 Hz stimulation in rat cerebellar slices. The PF train EPSC consisted of two components that were present in variable proportions at different dendritic sites: one, with large initial EPSC amplitude, saturated after three stimuli and dominated the early phase of the train EPSC; and the other, with small initial amplitude, increased steadily throughout the train of 10 stimuli and dominated the late phase of the train EPSC. The two phases also displayed different pharmacological profiles. Phase 2 was less sensitive to inhibition by NBQX but more sensitive to block by pentobarbital than phase 1. Comparison of synaptic results with fast glutamate applications to recombinant receptors suggests that the high-open-probability gating mode of AMPA receptors containing the auxiliary subunit transmembrane AMPA receptor regulatory protein γ-2 makes a substantial contribution to phase 2. We argue that the two synaptic components arise from AMPA receptors with different functional signatures and synaptic distributions. Comparisons of voltage- and current-clamp responses obtained from the same Purkinje cells indicate that phase 1 of the EPSC arises from synapses ideally suited to transmit short bursts of action potentials, whereas phase 2 is likely to arise from low-release-probability or 'silent' synapses that are recruited during longer bursts. %G English %2 https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-03808515/document %2 https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-03808515/file/Manuscript.pdf %L hal-03808515 %U https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-03808515 %~ UNIV-PARIS5 %~ UNIV-PARIS7 %~ CNRS %~ USPC %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UP-SCIENCES %~ SPPIN