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  • Title: Acute stress disrupts paired pulse facilitation and long-term potentiation in rat dorsal hippocampus through activation of glucocorticoid receptors.
    Author: Cazakoff BN, Howland JG.
    Journal: Hippocampus; 2010 Dec; 20(12):1327-31. PubMed ID: 20043285.
    Abstract:
    Cognitive functions such as learning and memory are widely believed to depend on patterns of short- and long-term synaptic plasticity. Factors, such as acute stress, which affect learning and memory, may do so by altering patterns of synaptic plasticity in distinct neural circuits. Numerous studies have examined the effects of acute stress on long-term synaptic plasticity; however, few have examined its influence on short-term plasticity. The present experiments directly assessed the effects of acute stress on short-term synaptic plasticity as measured by paired pulse facilitation (PPF) of excitatory postsynaptic potentials recorded from rat dorsal hippocampus (dHip) in vivo. Long-term potentiation (LTP) was also examined. Acute stress induced by exposure to an elevated platform impaired PPF and LTP in the dHip. Pretreatment of rats exposed to stress with mifepristone (RU38486; 10 mg kg⁻¹) blocked the stress-induced impairment of both PPF and LTP. These data demonstrate that activation of glucocorticoid receptors during acute stress disrupts normal patterns of both PPF and LTP in the dHip.
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