Short-Term Plasticity Turns Plastic. Focus on “Synaptic Transmission at the Calyx of Held Under In Vivo-Like Activity Levels”

Abstract

Short-term plasticity (STP) is a use-dependent change in synaptic strength on the time scale of millisecond to seconds and is observed in almost every synapse of the CNS. Each type of synapse has its own “personality” with respect to this property. When stimulated a few times within a second,