Table 1. Summary of the Effects of Stress.
| Measure |
Effects of stress |
|
|---|---|---|
| Adult | Adolescent | |
| In vivo firing rate | ↑ | — |
| In vivo neurons/track | — | ↑ |
| sIPSC (Hz) | ↓ | ↓ |
| mIPSC (Hz) and release | — | ↓ |
| GABA sensitivity | — | ↓ |
| Interneuron firing rate | — | ↓ |
| mEPSC frequency | ↑ | ↓ |
| Glutamate sensitivity | ↑ | — |
|
Effects of PTX |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | Stress | Control | Stress | |
| In vivo firing rate | ↑ | ↑ | — | — |
| In vivo neurons/track | — | — | ↑ | — |
Abbreviations: EPSC, excitatory postsynaptic current; GABA, γ-aminobutyric acid; mIPSC, miniature inhibitory postsynaptic current; sIPSC, spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic current.