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Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et Physiopathologie du Développement, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 29, Hôpital de Port-Royal, Paris, France. mclean@cochin.inserm.fr

1. Activity-dependent plasticity of GABAergic synaptic transmission was investigated in neonatal rat hippocampal slices obtained between postnatal day (P) 2-10 using intracellular recording techniques. In all experiments, AMPA receptors were blocked by continual application of CNQX (10 microM). 2. Between P2 and P4, tetanic stimulation (TS) evoked NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression of monosynaptic GABAA EPSPS (LTDGABAA). In contrast, when NMDA receptors were blocked by D-AP5 (50 microM), the same TS evoke long-term potentiation of GABAA EPSPS (LTPGABAA). 3. Between P6 and P10, TS failed to produce either LTP or LTD or hyperpolarizing monosynaptic GABAA IPSPS under the same recording conditions. However, when GABAergic potentials were rendered depolarizing (KCl-filled electrode) Ts induced either LTPGABAA or LTDGABAA in the presence or absence of D-AP5, respectively. 4. Both LTPGABAA and LTDGABAA were specific to the conditioned pathway and could be sequentially expressed at the same synapses. Potentiation of GABAergic synaptic efficacy was induced more easily following previous induction of LTDGABAA than in naive slices. 5. In conclusion, early in development, bidirectional synaptic plasticity is expressed by GABAA receptors and the activation (or not) of NMDA receptors determines the induction of either LTPGABAA or LTDGABAA.

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