Synaptic bistability due to nucleation and evaporation of receptor clusters

We introduce a bistable mechanism for long-term synaptic plasticity based on switching between two metastable states that contain significantly different numbers of synaptic receptors. One state is characterized by a two-dimensional gas of mobile interacting receptors and is stabilized against clust...

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Main Authors: Burlakov, V, Emptage, N, Goriely, A, Bressloff, P
Format: Journal article
Published: 2011