Schrödinger

About: Schrödinger is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Sputtering & Ion. The organization has 1621 authors who have published 2200 publications receiving 81554 citations.

Acetylcholine prioritises direct synaptic inputs from entorhinal cortex to CA1 by differential modulation of feedforward inhibitory circuits.

Abstract: Acetylcholine release in the hippocampus plays a central role in the formation of new memory representations. An influential but largely untested theory proposes that memory formation requires acetylcholine to enhance responses in CA1 to new sensory information from entorhinal cortex whilst depressing inputs from previously encoded representations in CA3. Here, we show that excitatory inputs from entorhinal cortex and CA3 are depressed equally by synaptic release of acetylcholine in CA1. However, feedforward inhibition from entorhinal cortex exhibits greater depression than CA3 resulting in a selective enhancement of excitatory-inhibitory balance and CA1 activation by entorhinal inputs. Entorhinal and CA3 pathways engage different feedforward interneuron subpopulations and cholinergic modulation of presynaptic function is mediated differentially by muscarinic M3 and M4 receptors, respectively. Thus, our data support a role and mechanisms for acetylcholine to prioritise novel information inputs to CA1 during memory formation. In this study, acetylcholine release is shown to reorganise hippocampal CA1 inhibitory networks resulting in prioritisation of entorhinal input over CA3 input. This is achieved by activation of a combination of M3 and M4 muscarinic receptors.

Photon induced fluorescence spectroscopy of rare gas atoms

Abstract: A survey of the experimental method of photon induced fluorescence spectroscopy applied in the VUV is given. Results obtained at BESSY for photoionization of the Ar 3s-electrons are presented in an exemplary fashion in a comparison with published results obtained by photoelectron spectroscopy. For this comparison resonances close to threshold and the energy dependence in the threshold range have been selected.