Chronic treatment with ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonist kynurenate affects GABAergic synaptic transmission in rat hippocampal cell cultures

It is well documented that prolonged treatment with antagonists of ionotropic glutamate receptors activates a number of homeostatic mechanisms including alteration of glutamatergic transmission. We studied whether this treatment can also affect GABAergic transmission. Using whole-cell voltage clamp recording and local extracellular stimulation we investigated evoked inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) in cultured rat hippocampal neurons grown in the presence of ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonist kynurenate (1 mM) and in control conditions. Chronic kynurenate treatment did not significantly affect the amplitude of evoked IPSCs and IPSC reversal potentials. In contrast we found that the paired-pulse depression was increased by 67% in cultures treated with kynurenic acid. We conclude that additional mechanism(s), alteration of GABAergic synaptic transmission, may contribute to homeostatic plasticity induced by chronic block of ionotropic glutamate receptors.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2003

Erschienen:

2003

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:341

Enthalten in:

Neuroscience letters - 341(2003), 1 vom: 24. Apr., Seite 61-4

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ivanova, Svetlana Y [VerfasserIn]
Storozhuk, Maksim V [VerfasserIn]
Melnick, Igor V [VerfasserIn]
Kostyuk, Platon G [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

56-12-2
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
H030S2S85J
Journal Article
Kynurenic Acid
Receptors, Glutamate
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 20.05.2003

Date Revised 01.07.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM124487645