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J Neurophysiol (November 28, 2007). doi:10.1152/jn.00942.2007
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Submitted on August 21, 2007
Accepted on November 24, 2007

Measurement and analysis of postsynaptic potentials using a novel voltage-deconvolution method

Magnus J E Richardson1* and Gilad Silberberg2

1 Warwick Systems Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom; , United Kingdom
2 Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: magnus.richardson{at}warwick.ac.uk.

Accurate measurement of post-synaptic potential amplitudes is a central requirement for the quantification of synaptic strength, dynamics of short-term and long-term plasticity, and vesicle-release statistics. However, the intracellular voltage is a filtered version of the underlying synaptic signal and so a method of accounting for the distortion caused by overlapping PSPs must be employed. Here a voltage-deconvolution technique is demonstrated that defilters the entire voltage trace to reveal an underlying signal of well-separated synaptic events. These isolated events can be cropped out and reconvolved to yield a set of isolated post-synaptic potentials from which voltage amplitudes may be measured directly - greatly simplifying this common task. The method also has the significant advantage of providing a higher temporal resolution of the dynamics of the underlying synaptic signal. The versatility of the method is demonstrated by a variety of experimental examples, including excitatory and inhibitory connections to neurons with passive membranes and those with activated voltage-gated currents. The deconvolved current-clamp voltage has many features in common with voltage-clamp current measurements. These similarities are analyzed using cable theory and a multi-compartment cell reconstruction, as well as direct comparison to voltage-clamp experiments.







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