Retrograde signaling at central synapses

AUTOR(ES)

Tao, Huizhong W.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Transcellular retrograde signaling from the postsynaptic target cell to the presynaptic neuron plays critical roles in the formation, maturation, and plasticity of synaptic connections. We here review recent progress in our understanding of the retrograde signaling at developing central synapses. Three forms of potential retrograde signals—membrane-permeant factors, membrane-bound factors, and secreted factors—have been implicated at both developing and mature synapses. Although many of these signals may be active constitutively, retrograde factors produced in association with activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, e.g., long-term potentiation and long-term depression, are of particular interest, because they may induce modification of neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission, functions directly related to the processing and storage of information in the nervous system.

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