Ultrastructural localization of the kainate selective glutamate receptor in noradrenergic perikarya and dendrites of the nucleus locus coeruleus in the rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 732, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 223-231

  Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a,b   Colago, Eric E O ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

excitatory transmission; norepinephrine; opiate; ventral medulla; vigilance; withdrawal

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030565540     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00569-0     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Aghajanian G.K., Kogan J.H., Moghaddam B. Opiate withdrawal increases glutamate and aspartate efflux in the locus coeruleus: an in vivo microdialysis study. Brain Res. 636:1994;126-130.
2. Akaoka H., Aston-Jones G. Opiate withdrawal-induced hyperactivity of locus coeruleus neurons is substantially mediated by augmented excitatory amino acid input. J. Neurosci. 11:1991;3830-3839.
3. Aston Jones G., Shipley M.T., Chouvet G., Ennis M., Van Bockstaele E., Pieribone V., Shiekhattar R., Akaoka H., Drolet G., Astier B. Afferent regulation of locus coeruleus neurons: anatomy, physiology and pharmacology. Prog. Brain Res. 88:1991;47-75.
4. Carlin R.K., Grab D.J., Cohen R.S., Siekevitz P. Isolation and characterization of postsynaptic densities from various brain regions: enrichment of different types of postsynaptic densities. J. Cell Biol. 86:1980;831-832.
5. Chan J., Aoki C., Pickel V.M. Optimization of differential immunogold-silver and peroxidase labeling with maintenance of ultrastructure in brain sections before plastic embedding. J. Neurosci. Meth. 33:1990;113-127.
6. Chiang C., Aston-Jones G. Response of locus coeruleus neurons to footshock stimulation is mediated by neurons in the rostral ventral medulla. Neuroscience. 53:1993;705-715.
7. Duman R.S., Tallman J.F., Nestler E.J. Acute and chronic opiate regulation of adenylate cyclase in brain: specific effects in locus coeruleus. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 246:1988;1033-1039.
8. Elam M., Svensson T.H., Thoren P. Locus coeruleus neuron and sympathetic nerves; activation by cutaneous sensory afferents. Brain Res. 366:1986;254-261.
9. Ennis M., Aston-Jones G. A potent excitatory input to the nucleus locus coeruleus from the ventrolateral medulla. Neurosci. Lett. 71:1986;299-305.
10. Foote S., Bloom F.E., Aston-Jones G. Nucleus locus coeruleus: new evidence of anatomical and physiological specificity. Physiol. Rev. 63:1983;844-914.
11. Gray E.G. Axosomatic and axo-dendritic synapses of the cerebral cortex: an electron microscopic study. J. Anat. 93:1959;420-433.
12. Guitart X., Nestler E.J. Second messenger and protein phosphorylation mechanisms underlying opiate addiction: studies in the rat locus coeruleus. Neurochem. Res. 18:1993;5-13.
13. Hsu S.M., Raine L., Fanger H. Use of avidin-biotin peroxidase complex (ABC) in immunoperoxidase techniques: a comparison between ABC and unlabeled antibody (PAP) procedures. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 29:1981;557-580.
14. Huntley G.W., Rogers S.W., Moran T., Janssen W., Archin N., Vickers J.C., Cauley K., Heinemann S.F., Morrison J.H. Selective distribution of kainate receptor subunit immunoreactivity in monkey neocortex revealed by a monoclonal antibody that recognizes glutamate receptor subunits GluR5/6/7. J. Neurosci. 13:1993;2965-2981.
15. Leranth, C. and Pickel, V.M., Electron microscopic pre-embedding double immunostaining methods. In L. Heimer and L. Zaborsky (Eds.), Tract-tracing Methods 2, Recent Progress, Plenum, New York, 1989, pp. 129-172.
16. Maldonado R., Koob G.F. Destruction of the locus coeruleus decreases physical signs of opiate withdrawal. Brain Res. 605:1993;128-138.
17. Nestler E.J., Erdos J.J., Terwilliger R., Duman R.S., Tallman J.F. Regulation of G proteins by chronic morphine in the rat locus coeruleus. Brain Res. 476:1989;230-239.
18. Page M., Valentino R.J. Locus coeruleus activation by physiological challenges. Brain Res. Bull. 35:1994;557-560.
19. Peters, A., Palay, S.L. and Webster, H.deF., The Fine Structure of the Nervous System, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991.
20. Rasmussen K., Beitner-Johnson D.B., Krystal J.H., Aghajanian G.K., Nestler E.J. Opiate withdrawal and the rat locus coeruleus: behavioral, electrophysiological, and biochemical correlates. J. Neurosci. 10:1990;2308-2317.
21. Rispoli V., Lopilato R., Priolo E., David E., Marra R., Nistico G. Electrocortical desynchronization after microinfusion of kainic acid into the locus coeruleus of rats. Funct. Neurol. 9:1994;203-208.
22. Somogyi P., Eshbar N., Teichberg V.I., Roberts J.D. Subcellular localization of a putative kainate receptor in Bergmann glial cells using a monoclonal antibody in the chick and fish cerebellar cortex. Neuroscience. 35:1990;9-30.
23. Svensson T.H. Peripheral, autonomic regulation of locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons in brain: putative implications for psychiatry and psychopharmacology. Psychopharmacologia. 92:1987;1-7.
24. Swanson L.W. The locus coeruleus: a cytoarchitectonic, golgi and immunohistochemical study in the albino rat. Brain Res. 110:1976;39-56.
25. Trujillo K.A., Akil H. Inhibition of opiate tolerance by non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists. Brain Res. 633:1994;178-188.
26. Van Bockstaele E.J., Branchereau P., Pickel V.M. Morphologically heterogeneous methionine-enkephalin containing axon terminals form synapses with tyrosine hydroxylase containing dendrites in the rostral pole of the nucleus locus coeruleus. J. Comp. Neurol. 363:1996;423-438.
27. Wenthold R.J., Yokotani N., Doi K., Wada K. Immunochemical characterization of the non-NMDA glutamate receptor using subunit-specific antibodies. J. Biol. Chem. 267:1992;501-507.
28. Zhang T., Feng Y., Robin R.W., Ho I.K. Naloxone-precicipitated morphine withdrawal increases pontine glutamate levels in the rat. Life Sci. 55:1994;25-31.