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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 5;79(9):746–754. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.05.018

Table 1.

Decay time constants for NMDAR-mediated synaptic currents over early postnatal development.

P15 P30 P45
Tau (ms) n P Tau (ms) n P Tau (ms) n P
Pyramidal Neurons
Mecp2 WT Control 116±8 12 ** 70±4 11 n.s. 73±5 13 n.s.
Ifenprodil 76±10 12 60±4 12 67±5 13
Mecp2 KO Control 102±6 15 ** 90±5 10 ** 74±3 18 **
Ifenprodil 69±8 10 71±5 8 60±4 10
Parvalbumin Interneurons
Mecp2 WT Control 104±6 12 ** 82±5 10 ** 56±5 11 n.s.
Ifenprodil 61±6 13 55±5 9 55±6 8
Mecp2 KO Control 102±4 13 ** 60±5 11 n.s. 56±4 13 n.s.
Ifenprodil 71±5 10 48±5 9 52±4 13

Tau = Time constant of NMDAR-mediated synaptic current decay; n=number of cells;

**

P <0.01,

ANOVA with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons