TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements...iii
Abstract ...iv
Table of Contents ...v
List of Illustrations ...vi
Abbreviations Used...vii
Chapter I: Introduction and Literature Review ...1
Long-Term Potentiation ...3
Silent Synapses ...6
Input-Specificity ...8
Modulatory Transmitters and LTP...9
Local Protein Synthesis in Neurons ...11
Demonstrations of Local Protein Synthesis...20
Chapter II: Dynamic Visualization of Local Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Neurons ...28
Summary/Introduction...29
Results ...31
Discussion ...50
Experimental Procedures...53
Chapter III: Dopaminergic Stimulation of Local Protein Synthesis Enhances Surface GluR1 Expression and Synaptic Transmission in Hippocampal Neurons ...59
Introduction...60
Results ...61
Methods...72
Chapter IV: Quantitative Analysis of 3-D Colocalization and 2-D Correlation of Two-Color Fluorescence Images ...78
Introduction...79
3-D Particles Analysis... 82
2-D Cross-Correlation... 89
Chapter V: Summary, Discussion and Future Directions...98
Work Cited ...107
Appendix A: MATLAB code for 3-D Particles Analysis...120
Appendix B: MATLAB code for 2-D Correlation Analysis ...145
Appendix C: Reprints of Published Articles...153