D-tubocurarine reduces GABA responses in rat substantia nigra dopamine neurons

Synapse

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 236-239

  Caputi, Luigi ^a,b   Bengtson, C Peter ^a   Guatteo, Ezia ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a,b   Mercuri, Nicola B ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baclofen; d Tubocurarine; GABA receptors; Glycine; Patch clamp; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GABA AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEURONS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TUBOCURARINE;

EID: 0037338422     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10164     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Amini B, Clark Jr JW, Canavier CC. 1999. Calcium dynamics underlying pacemaker-like and burst firing oscillations in midbrain dopaminergic neurons: a computational study. J Neurophysiol 82:2249-2261.
2. Berretta N, Paolucci E, Bernardi G, Mercuri NB. 2001. Glutamate receptor stimulation induces a persistent rhythmicity of the GABAergic inputs to rat midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Eur J Neurosci 14:777-784.
3. Bixby JL, Spitzer NC. 1984. The appearance and development of neurotransmitter sensitivity in Xenopus embryonic spinal neurones in vitro. J Physiol 353:143-155.
4. Bosch MA, Kelly MJ, Ronnekleiv OK. 2002. Distribution, neuronal colocalization, and 17beta-E2 modulation of small conductance calcium-activated K(+) channel (SK3) mRNA in the guinea pig brain. Endocrinology 143:1097-1107.
5. Brodie MS, McElvain MA, Bunney EB, Appel SB. 1999. Pharmacological reduction of small conductance calcium-activated potassium current (SK) potentiates the excitatory effect of ethanol on ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 290:325-333.
6. Chattipakorn SC, McMahon LL. 2002. Pharmacological characterization of glycine-gated chloride currents recorded in rat hippocampal slices. J Neurophysiol 87:1515-1525.
7. Chiodini FC, Tassonyi E, Hulo S, Bertrand D, Muller D. 1999. Modulation of synaptic transmission by nicotine and nicotinic antagonists in hippocampus. Brain Res Bull 48:623-628.
8. Garcia-Alcocer G, Garcia-Colunga J, Martinez-Torres A, Miledi R. 2001. Characteristics of glycine receptors expressed by embryonic rat brain mRNAs. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:2781-2785.
9. Grace AA, Bunney BS. 1985. Opposing effects of striatonigral feedback pathways on midbrain dopamine cell activity. Brain Res 333:271-284.
10. Grillner P, Berretta N, Bernardi G, Svensson TH, Mercuri NB. 2000. Muscarinic receptors depress GABAergic synaptic transmission in rat midbrain dopamine neurons. Neuroscience 96:299-307.
11. Guatteo E, Mercuri NB, Bernardi G, Knopfel T. 1999. Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors mediate an inward current in rat substantia nigra dopamine neurons that is independent from calcium mobilization. J Neurophysiol 82:1974-1981.
12. Hausser MA, Yung WH. 1994. Inhibitory synaptic potentials in guinea-pig substantia nigra dopamine neurones in vitro. J Physiol 479:401-422.
13. Ishii TM, Maylie J, Adelman JP. 1997. Determinants of apamin and d-tubocurarine block in SK potassium channels. J Biol Chem 272:23195-23200.
14. Kohler M, Hirschberg B, Bond CT, Kinzie JM, Marrion NV, Maylie J, Adelman JP. 1996. Small-conductance, calcium-activated potassium channels from mammalian brain. Science 273:1709-1714.
15. Lacey MG, Mercuri NB, North RA. 1987. Dopamine acts on D2 receptors to increase potassium conductance in neurones of the rat substantia nigra zona compacta. J Physiol 392:397-416.
16. Mercuri NB, Calabresi P, Bernardi G. 1990. Effects of glycine on neurons in the rat substantia nigra zona compacta: in vitro electrophysiological study. Synapse 5:190-200.
17. Mercuri NB, Bonci A, Calabresi P, Stefani A, Bernardi G. 1995. Properties of the hyperpolarization-activated cation current Ih in rat midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Eur J Neurosci 7:462-469.
18. Nicoll RA. 1975. The action of acetylcholine antagonists on amino acid responses in the frog spinal cord in vitro. Br J Pharmacol 55:449-458.
19. Ping HX, Shepard PD. 1996. Apamin-sensitive Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels regulate pacemaker activity in nigral dopamine neurons. Neuroreport 7:809-814.
20. Prisco S, Natoli S, Bernardi G, Mercuri NB. 2002. Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors activate burst firing in rat midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Neuropharmacology 42:289-296.
21. Sah P. 1996. Ca(2+)-activated K+ currents in neurones: types, physiological roles and modulation. Trends Neurosci 19:150-154.
22. Sawada M, Coggeshall RE. 1976. Ionic mechanism of 5-hydroxytryptamine induced hyperpolarization and inhibitory junctional potential in body wall muscle cells of Hirudo medicinalis. J Neurobiol 7(1):63-73.
23. Seutin V, Johnson SW, North RA. 1993. Apamin increases NMDAinduced burst-firing of rat mesencephalic dopamine neurons. Brain Res 630:341-344.
24. Shepard PD, Bunney BS. 1991. Repetitive firing properties of putative dopamine-containing neurons in vitro: regulation by an apaminsensitive Ca(2+)-activated K+ conductance. Exp Brain Res 86:141-150.
25. Simmonds MA, 1982. Classification of some GABA antagonists with regard to site of action and potency in slices of rat cuneate nucleus. Eur J Pharm 80(4):347-358.
26. Simmonds MA. 1983. Depolarizing responses to glycine, beta-alanine and muscimol in isolated optic nerve and cuneate nucleus. Br J Pharmacol 79:799-806.
27. Stocker M, Pedarzani P. 2000. Differential distribution of three Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channel subunits, SK1, SK2, and SK3, in the adult rat central nervous system. Mol Cell Neurosci 15:476-493.
28. Strzelezuk M, Romaniuk A. 1995. Fear induced by the blockade of GABAA-ergic transmission in the hypothalamus of the cat: behavioral and neurochemical study. Behav Brain Res 72(1-2):63-71.
29. Tauck DL, Frosch MP, Lipton SA. 1988. Characterization of GABA- and glycine-induced currents of solitary rodent retinal ganglion cells in culture. Neuroscience 27:193-203.
30. Tozzi A, Guatteo E, Caputi L, Bernardi G, Mercuri NB. 2001. Group I mGluRs coupled to G proteins are regulated by tyrosine kinase in dopamine neurons of the rat midbrain. J Neurophysiol 85:2490-2497.
31. Wolfart J, Neuhoff H, Franz O, Roeper J. 2001. Differential expression of the small-conductance, calcium-activated potassium channel SK3 is critical for pacemaker control in dopaminergic midbrain neurons. J Neurosci 15;21:3443-3456.
32. Wotring VE, Yoon KW. 1995. The inhibitory effects of nicotinic antagonists on currents elicited by GABA in rat hippocampal neurons. Neuroscience 67:293-300.
33. Zhang ZW, Berg DK. 1995. Patch-clamp analysis of glycine-induced currents in chick ciliary ganglion neurons. J Physiol 487:395-405.
34. Zheng F, Johnson SW. 2001. Glycine receptor-mediated inhibition of dopamine and non-dopamine neurons of the rat ventral tegmental area in vitro. Brain Res 919:313-317.