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1 Physiology & Biophysics, Univ. Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jmsull{at}u.washington.edu.
Paired-pulse depression (PPD) is a form of short-term plasticity that plays a central role in processing of synaptic activity, and is manifest as a decrease in the size of the response to the second of two closely timed stimuli. In spite of mounting evidence to the contrary, PPD is still commonly thought to reflect depletion of the pool of synaptic vesicles available for release in response to the second stimulus. Here it is shown that PPD cannot be accounted for by depletion at excitatory synapses made by hippocampal neurons because PPD is unaffected by changes in the fraction of the readily releasable pool (RRP) released by the first of a pair of pulses.
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