Retinal ganglion cell depletion alters the phenotypic expression of GABA and GAD in the rat retina

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1885-1890

  Yamasaki, Edna N ^a   Andrade Da Costa, Belmira L S ^a,b   Barbosa, Valéria D ^a   Hokoç, Jan Nora ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; Plasticity; Retinal ganglion cell

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PHENOTYPE; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0030884797     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb00755.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Baxter, C. F. (1976) Some recent advances in studies of GABA metabolism and compartmentation. In Roberts, E., Chase, T. N. and Tower, D. B. (eds), GABA in Nervous System Function. Raven Press, New York, pp. 61-87.
2. Beaulieu, C., Campistron, G. and Crevier, C. (1994) Quantitative aspects of the GAB A circuitry in the primary visual cortex of the adult rat. J. Comp. Neurol., 339, 559-572.
3. Cowan, M. W., Fawcett, J. W., O'Leary, D. D. M. and Stanfield, B. B. (1984) Regressive events in neurogenesis. Science, 225, 1258-1265.
4. De Mello, F. G., Bachrach, U. and Nirenberg, M. (1976) Ornithine and glutamic acid decarboxylase activities in developing chick retina. J. Neurochem., 27, 847-851.
5. De Mello, F. G., Hokoç, J. N., Ventura, A. L. M. and Gardino, P. F. (1991) Glutamic acid decarboxylase of embryonic avian retina cells in culture: regulation by γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Cell. Mol. Neurobiol., 11, 485-495.
6. Fry, K. R. and Neill, P. G. (1994) Triple-label studies of GABAergic and glycinergic synaptic relationships in the rabbit retina. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. Abstr., 35, 1365.
7. i in retinal neurons of postnatal rabbits. Vis. Neurosci., 13, 441-447.
8. Kisvárday, Z. F., Cowey, A., Stoerig, P. and Somogyi, P. (1991) Direct and indirect retinal input into degenerated dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus after striate cortical removal in monkey: implications for residual vision. Exp. Brain Res., 86, 211-292.
9. Lidén, E., Karlsson, L. and Sellström, A. (1987) Is the concentration of γ-aminobutyric acid in the nerve terminal regulated via product inhibition of glutamic acid decarboxylase? Neurochem. Res., 12, 489-493.
10. Linden, R. and Serfaty, C. A. (1985) Evidence for differential effects of terminal and dendritic competition upon developmental neuronal death in the retina. Neuroscience, 15, 853-868.
11. LoTurco, J. L., Owens, D. F., Heath, M. J. S., Davis, M. B. E. and Kriegstein, A. R. (1995) GABA and glutamate depolarize cortical progenitor cells and inhibit DNA synthesis. Neuron, 15, 1287-1298.
12. Martin, D. L. and Rimvall, K. (1993) Regulation of γ-aminobutyric acid synthesis in the brain. J. Neurochem., 60, 395-407.
13. 2+ elevating to depressing. J. Neurosci., 15, 5065-5077.
14. Osborne, N. N. and Perry, V. H. (1985) Effect of neonatal optic tract transection on some classes of amacrine cells in the rat retina. Brain Res., 343, 230-235.
15. Owens, D. F., Boyce, L. H., Davis, M. B. E. and Kriegstein, A. R. (1996) Excitatory GABA responses in embryonic and neonatal cortical slices demonstrated by gramicidin perforated-patch recordings and calcium imaging. J. Neurosci., 26, 6414-6423.
16. Porter, T. G. and Martin, D. L. (1984) Evidence for feedback regulation of glutamate decarboxylase by γ-aminobutyric acid. J. Neurochem., 43, 1464-1467.
17. Porter, T. G., Spink, D. C., Martin, S. B. and Martin, D. L. (1985) Transaminations catalysed by brain glutamate decarboxylase. Biochem. J., 231, 705-712.
18. Rimvall, K. and Martin, D. L. (1992) Increased intracellular γ-aminobutyric acid selectively lowers the level of the larger of two glutamate decarboxylase proteins in cultured GABAergic neurons from rat cerebral cortex. J. Neurochem., 58, 158-166.
19. Rimvall, K., Sheikh, S. N. and Martin, D. L. (1993) Effects of increased γ-aminobutyric acid levels on GAD-67 protein and mRNA levels in rat cerebral cortex. J. Neurochem., 60, 714-720.
20. Sloviter, R. S., Sollas, A. L., Dean, E. and Dichter, M. A. (1995) Immunocytochemical localization of 65- and 67 kDa glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)- and GABA-like immunoreactivities (LI) in the rat hippocampal formation: GAD-67 and GABA-LI are present in normal dentate granule cells and are rapidly induced by afferent stimulation, kainic acid, or pilocarpine. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 21, 1968.
21. Somogyi, R., Wen, X., Dugich-Djordjevic, M. M., Giorgi, O., McKay, R. D. and Barker, J. L. (1995) Induction of embryonic GAD transcripts and nestin following hippocampal injury: recapitulation of developmental programs. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 21, 1073.
22. Spoerri, P. E. (1988) Neurotrophic effects of GABA in cultures of embryonic chick brain and retina. Synapse, 2, 11-22.
23. Van den Pol, A. N., Obrietan, K. and Chen, G. (1996) Excitatory actions of GABA after neuronal trauma. J. Neurosci., 16, 4283-4292.
24. Vaney, D. I. (1990) The mosaic of amacrine cells in the mammalian retina. In Osborne, N. and Chader, J. (eds), Progress in Retinal Research. Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 49-100.
25. Vardi, N. and Auerbach, P. (1995) Specific cell types in cat retina express different forms of glutamic acid decarboxylase. J. Comp. Neurol., 351, 374-384.
26. Vaughn, J. E., Famiglietti, E. V., Barber, R. P., Saito, K., Roberts, E. and Ribak, C. E. (1981) GABAergic amacrine cells in rat retina: immunocytochemical identification and synaptic connectivity. J. Comp. Neurol., 197, 11-127.
27. Wassle, H. and Boycott, B. B. (1991) Functional architecture of the mammalian retina. Physiol. Rev., 71, 447-480.
28. Wu, D. K. and Cepko, C. L. (1993) Development of dopaminergic neurons is insensitive to optic nerve section in the neonatal rat retina. Dev. Brain Res., 74, 253-260.
29. Yamasaki, E. N., Costa, B. L. S. A., Barbosa, V. D. and Hokoç, J. N. (1996) Retinal ganglion cell depletion increases the expression of GABA and GAD in the ganglion cell layer. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 22, 1726.