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Glutamic acid sensitivity of AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid) receptor at spine is an important factor that determines excitatory synaptic weight. It has been suggested that the weight is determined by spine morphology. It was also reported that the thick spines (mushroom type) whose head is fully developed remain mostly stable. Therefore, the memory in the cerebral neuronal circuit is possibly stored in the spine morphology. However, it is still unclear how glutamic acid sensitivity varies with the change in spine morphology. In this paper, we show the relation between the spine morphology and the glutamic acid sensitivity. We classify the spines into 3 types (mushroom, thin and stubby) according to physiological observation. We analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of CaMKII-CaMCa4 concentration, that increases the glutamic acid sensitivity, when calcium ions are injected at the spine head. We find that CaMKII-CaMCa4 concentration in the mushroom-type spine is much higher than those in the others and that its decay is much slower. This result is the first finding that shows the relation between the change in the spine morphology and the glutamic acid sensitivity, which connects synaptic characteristics that determines the brain functions and the spine morphology.
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Kato, S., Sakatani, S., Hirose, A. (2004). Influence of Dendritic Spine Morphology on Spatiotemporal Change of Calcium/Calmoduline-Dependent Protein Kinase Density. In: Pal, N.R., Kasabov, N., Mudi, R.K., Pal, S., Parui, S.K. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30499-9_4
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