Enhanced neurotransmitter release at glutamatergic synapses on oxytocin neurones during lactation in the rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 526, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-114

  Stern, Javier E ^a   Hestrin, Shaul ^b   Armstrong, William E ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIRED PULSE FACILITATION; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

EID: 0034234801     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.t01-1-00109.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. ANGULO, M. C., LAMBOLEZ, B., AUDINAT, E., HESTRIN, S. & ROSSIER, J. (1997). Subunit composition, kinetic, and permeation properties of AMPA receptors in single neocortical nonpyramidal cells. Journal of Neuroscience 17, 6685-6696.
2. BASKYS, A. & MALENKA, R. C. (1991). Agonists at metabotropic glutamate receptors presynaptically inhibit EPSCs in neonatal rat hippocampus. Journal of Physiology 444, 687-701.
3. BRUSSAARD, A. B., DEVAY, P., LEYTING-VERMEULEN, J. L. & KITS, K. S. (1999). Changes in properties and neurosteroid regulation of GABAergic synapses in the supraoptic nucleus during the mammalian female reproductive cycle. Journal of Physiology 516, 513-524.
4. BRUSSAARD, A. B., KITS, K. S., BAKER, R. E., WILLIAMS, W. P., LEYTING-VERMEULEN, J. W., VOORN, P., SMIT, A. B., BICKNELL, R. J. & HERBISON, A. E. (1997). Plasticity in fast synaptic inhibition of adult oxytocin neurons caused by switch in GABA(A) receptor subunit expression. Neuron 19, 1103-1114.
5. CROWLEY, R. S., INSEL, T. R., O'KEEFE, J. A. & AMICO, J. A. (1993). Cytoplasmic oxytocin and vasopressin gene transcripts decline postpartum in the hypothalamus of the lactating rat. Endocrinology 133, 2704-2710.
6. EL MAJDOUBI, M., POULAIN, D. A. & THEODOSIS, D. T. (1996). The glutamatergic innervation of oxytocin- and vasopressin-secreting neurons in the rat supraoptic nucleus and its contribution to lactation-induced synaptic plasticity. European Journal of Neuroscience 8, 1377-1389.
7. EL MAJDOUBI, M., POULAIN, D. A. & THEODOSIS, D. T. (1997). Lactation-induced plasticity in the supraoptic nucleus augments axodendritic and axosomatic GABAergic and glutamatergic synapses: and ultrastructural analysis using the dissector method. Neuroscience 80, 1137-1147.
8. GIES, U. & THEODOSIS, D. T. (1994). Synaptic plasticity in the rat supraoptic nucleus during lactation involves GABA innervation and oxytocin neurons: a quantitative immunocytochemical analysis. Journal of Neuroscience 14, 2861-2869.
9. HATTON G. I. (1997). Function-related plasticity in hypothalamus. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience 20, 375-397.
10. INENAGA, K., HONDA E., HIRAKAWA T., NAKAMURA S. & YAMASHITA H. (1998). Glutamatergic synaptic inputs to mouse supraoptic neurons in calcium-free medium in vitro. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 10, 1-7.
11. ISRAEL, J. M. & POULAIN, D. A. (2000). 17β-Oestradiol modulates in vitro electrical properties and responses to kainate of oxytocin neurons in lactating rats. Journal of Physiology 524, 457-470.
12. B receptors on rat supraoptic magnocellular neurons. Journal of Physiology 504, 113-126.
13. KOMBIAN, S. B., MOUGINOT, D. & PITTMAN, Q. J. (1997). Dendritically released peptides act as retrograde modulators of afferent excitation in the supraoptic nucleus in vitro. Neuron 19, 903-912.
14. B receptors presynaptically modulate excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat supraoptic nucleus in vitro. Journal of Neurophysiology 76, 1166-1179.
15. MANABE, T., WYLLIE, D. J., PERKEL, D. J. & NICOLL, R. A. (1993). Modulation of synaptic transmission and long-term potentiation: effects on paired pulse facilitation and EPSC variance in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. Journal of Neurophysiology 70, 1451-1459.
16. MICHALOUDI, H. C., EL MAJDOUBI, M., POULAIN, D. A., PAPADOPOULOS, G. C. & THEODOSIS, D. T. (1997). The noradrenergic innervation of identified hypothalamic magnocellular somata and its contribution to lactation-induced synaptic plasticity. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 9, 17-23.
17. MOOS, F. C. (1995). GABA-induced facilitation of the periodic bursting activity of oxytocin neurones in suckled rats. Journal of Physiology 488, 103-114.
18. MOOS, F. C., ROSSI, K. & RICHARD, P. (1997). Activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors regulates basal electrical activity of oxytocin and vasopressin neurons in lactating rats. Neuroscience 77, 993-1002.
19. PARKER, S. L. & CROWLEY, W. R. (1993). Stimulation of oxytocin release in the lactating rat by central excitatory amino acid mechanisms: evidence for specific involvement of R,S-alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid-sensitive glutamate receptors. Endocrinology 133, 2847-2854.
20. SCHRADER, L. A. & TASKER, J. G. (1997). Presynaptic modulation by metabotropic glutamate receptors of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs to hypothalamic magnocellular neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 77, 527-536.
21. SMITH, B. N. & ARMSTRONG, W. E. (1993). Histamine enhances the depolarizing afterpotential of immunohistochemically identified vasopressin neurons in the rat supraoptic nucleus via H1-receptor activation. Neuroscience 53, 855-864.
22. STERN, J. E. & ARMSTRONG, W. E. (1996). Changes in the electrical properties of supraoptic nucleus oxytocin and vasopressin neurons during lactation. Journal of Neuroscience 16, 4861-4871.
23. STERN, J. E. & ARMSTRONG, W. E. (1998). Reorganization of the dendritic trees of oxytocin and vasopressin neurons of the rat supraoptic nucleus during lactation. Journal of Neuroscience 18, 841-853.
24. STERN, J. E., GALARRETA, M., FOEHRING, R. C., HESTRIN, S. & ARMSTRONG, W. E. (1999). Differences in the properties of ionotropic glutamate synaptic currents in oxytocin and vasopressin neuroendocrine neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 19, 3367-3375.
25. THEODOSIS, D. T. & POULAIN, D. A. (1993). Activity-dependent neuronal-glial and synaptic plasticity in the adult mammalian hypothalamus. Neuroscience 57, 501-535.
26. VOISIN, D. L., HERBISON, A. E. & POULAIN, D. A. (1995). Central inhibitory effects of muscimol and bicuculline on the milk ejection reflex in the anaesthetized rat. Journal of Physiology 483, 211-224.
27. ZUCKER, R. S. (1989). Short-term synaptic plasticity. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience 12, 13-31.