AMPA receptors mediate acetylcholine release from starburst amacrine cells in the rabbit retina

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 466, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-90

  Firth, Sally I ^a   Li, Wei ^a,b   Massey, Stephen C ^a   Marshak, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic; Confocal microscopy; Glutamate; Interneuron; Ionotropic receptors; Localization

Indexed keywords

1 (4 AMINOPHENYL) 3,4 DIHYDRO 4 METHYL 3 METHYLCARBAMOYL 7,8 METHYLENEDIOXY 5H 2,3 BENZODIAZEPINE; 1 (4 AMINOPHENYL) 4 METHYL 7,8 METHYLENEDIOXY 5H 2,3 BENZODIAZEPINE; 4 METHYLGLUTAMIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR AGONIST; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CHOLINE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RETINA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRITIUM; VISION;

EID: 0141593434     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10880     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Ames A, Nesbett FB. 1981. In vitro retina as an experimental model of the central nervous system. J Neurochem 37:867-877.
2. Bleakman D, Ballyk BA, Schoepp DD, Palmer AJ, Bath CP, Sharpe EF, Woolley ML, Bufton HR, Kamboj RK, Tarnawa I, et al. 1996. Activity of 2,3-benzodiezepines at native rat and recombinant human glutamate receptors in vitro: stereospecificity and selectivity profiles. Neuropharmacology 35:1689-1702.
3. Bloomfield SA, Miller RF. 1986. A functional organization of ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina. J Neurosci 6:1-13.
4. Brandon C. 1987. Cholinergic neurons in the rabbit retina: dendritic branching and ultrastructural connectivity. Brain Res 426:119-130.
5. Brown SP, Masland RH. 1999. Costratification of a population of bipolar cells with direction-selective circuitry of the rabbit retina. J Comp Neurol 408:97-106.
6. Carvalho AL, Correia S, Faro CJ, Duarte CB, Carvalho AP. 2002. Phosphorylation of GluR4 AMPA-type glutamate receptor subunit by protein kinase C in cultured retina amacrine neurons. Eur J Neurosci 15:465-474.
7. Dingledine R, Borges K, Bowie D, Traynelis SF. 1999. The glutamate receptor ion channels. Pharmacol Rev 51:7-61.
8. Donevan SD, Beg A, Gunther JM, Twyman RE. 1998. The methylglutamate, SYM 2081, is a potent and highly selective agonist at kainate receptors. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 285:539-545.
9. Famiglietti EV. 1981. Functional architecture of cone bipolar cells in mammalian retina. Vision Res 21:1559-1563.
10. Famiglietti EV. 1983. 'Starburst' amacrine cells and cholinergic neurons: mirror-symmetric ON and OFF amacrine cells in the rabbit retina. Brain Res 261:138-144.
11. Famiglietti EV. 1991. Synaptic organization of starburst amacrine cells in the rabbit retina: analysis of serial thin sections by electron microscopy and graphic reconstruction. J Comp Neurol 309:40-70.
12. Famiglietti EV. 2002. A structural basis for omnidirectional connections between starburst amacrine cells and directionally selective ganglion cells in rabbit retina, with associated bipolar cells. Visual Neurosci 19:145-162.
13. Gabriel R, de Souza S, Ziff EB, Witkovsky P. 2002. Association of the AMPA receptor-related postsynaptic density proteins GRIP and ABP with subsets of glutamate-sensitive neurons in the rat retina. J Comp Neurol 449:129-140.
14. Ghosh KK, Haverkamp S, Wässle H. 2001. Glutamate receptors in the rod pathway of the mammalian retina. J Neurosci 21:8636-8647.
15. Golshani P, Liu XB, Jones EG. 2001, Differences in quantal amplitude reflect GluR4-subunit number at corticothalamic synapses on two populations of thalamic neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:4172-4177.
16. Grunder T, Kohler K, Guenther E. 2000. Distribution and developmental regulation of AMPA receptor subunit proteins in rat retina. Invest Ophthalmol Visual Sci 141:3600-3606.
17. Grünert U, Haverkamp S, Fletcher EL, Wässle H. 2002. Synaptic distribution of ionotropic glutamate receptors in the inner plexiform layer of the primate retina. J Comp Neurol 447:138-151.
18. Hack I, Koulen P, Peichl L, Brandstatter JH. 2002. Development of glutamatergic synapses in the rat retina: the postnatal expression of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits. Visual Neurosci 19:1-13.
19. Kittila CA, Massey SC. 1997. The pharmacology of directionally selective ganglion cells in the rabbit retina. J Neurophysiol 77:675-689.
20. Li W, Trexler EB, Massey SC. 2001. Distribution of Ribbon Synapses in the Rabbit Retina. Invest Ophthalmol Visual Sci 42:S670 (3606).
21. Li W, Trexler B, Massey SC. 2002. Glutamate receptors at rod bipolar ribbon synapses in the rabbit retina. J Comp Neurol 448:230-248.
22. Linn DM, Massey SC. 1991. Acetylcholine release from the rabbit retina mediated by NMDA receptors. J Neurosci 11:123-133.
23. Linn DM, Blazynski C, Redburn DA, Massey SC. 1991. Acetylcholine release from the rabbit retina mediated by kainate receptors. J Neurosci 11:111-122.
24. MacNeil MA, Heussy JK, Dacheux RF, Raviola E, Masland RH. 1999. The shapes and numbers of amacrine cells: matching of photofilled with Golgi-stained cells in the rabbit and comparison with other mammalian species. J Comp Neurol 413:305-326.
25. Marc RE. 1999a. Mapping glutamatergic drive in the vertebrate retina with channel-permeant organic cation. J Comp Neurol 407:47-64.
26. Marc RE. 1999b. Kainate activation of horizontal, bipolar, amacrine and ganglion cells in the rabbit retina. J Comp Neurol 407:65-76.
27. Masland RH, Livingstone CJ. 1976. Effect of stimulation with light on synthesis and release of acetylcholine by an isolated mammalian retina. J Neurophysiol 39:1210-1219.
28. Massey SC, Neal MJ. 1979. The light evoked release of acetycholine from the rabbit retina in vivo and its inhibition by γ-aminobutyric acid. J Neurochem 32:1327-1329.
29. Massey SC, Redburn DA. 1982. A tonic gamma-amminobutyric acid-mediated inhibition of cholinergic amacrine cells in rabbit retina. J Neurosci 2:1633-1643.
30. Massey SC, Redburn DA. 1985. Light evoked release of acetylcholine in response to a single flash: cholinergic amacrine cells receive ON and OFF input. Brain Res 328:374-377.
31. McGillem GS, Dacheux RF. 2001. Rabbit cone bipolar cells: correlation of their morphologies with whole-cell recordings. Visual Neurosci 18:675-685.
32. Merighi A, Raviola E, Dacheux RF. 1996. Connections of two types of flat cone bipolars in the rabbit retina. J Comp Neurol 371:164-178.
33. Millar TJ, Morgan IG. 1987. Cholinergic amacrine cells in the rabbit retina synapse onto other cholinergic amacrine cells. Neurosci Lett 74:281-285.
34. Mills SL, Massey SC. 1992. Morphology of bipolar cells labeled by DAPI in the rabbit retina. J Comp Neurol 321:133-149.
35. Mitchell CK, Redburn DA. 1991. Melatonin inhibits ACh release from the rabbit retina. Visual Neurosci 7:479-486.
36. Muresan V, Lyass A, Schnapp BJ. 1999. The kinesin motor KIF3A is a component of the presynaptic ribbon in vertebrate photoreceptors. J Neurosci 19:1027-1037.
37. O'Malley DM, Masland RH. 1989. Co-release of acetylcholine and γ-aminobutyric acid by a retinal neuron. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86:3414-3418.
38. O'Malley DM, Masland RH. 1993. Responses of the starburst amacrine cells to moving stimuli. J Neurophysiol 69:730-738.
39. Patneau DK, Mayer ML, Jane DE, Watkins JC. 1992. Activation and desensitization of AMPA/kainate receptors by novel derivatives of Willardiine. J Neurosci 12:595-606.
40. Peters BN, Masland RH. 1996. Responses to light of starburst amacrine cells. J Neurophysiol 75:469-480.
41. Qin P, Pourcho RG. 1996. Distribution of AMPA-selective glutamate receptor subunits in the cat retina. Brain Res 710:303-307.
42. Qin P, Pourcho RG. 1999a. Localization of AMPA-selective glutamate receptor subunits in the cat retina: a light- and electron-microscopic study. Visual Neurosci 16:169-177.
43. Qin P, Pourcho RG. 1999b. AMPA-selective glutamate receptor subunits GluR2 and GluR4 in the cat retina: an immunocytochemical study. Visual Neurosci 16:1105-1114.
44. Shen Y, Zhou Y, Yang X-L. 1999. Characterization of AMPA receptors on isolated amacrine-like cells in carp retina. Eur J Neurosci 11:4233-4240.
45. Tauchi M, Masland RH. 1984. The shape and arrangement of the cholinergic neurons in the rabbit retina. Proc R Soc Lond B 223:101-119.
46. Tran MN, Higgs MH, Lukasiewicz PD. 1999. AMPA receptor kinetics limit retinal amacrine cell excitatory synaptic responses. Visual Neurosci 16:835-842.
47. Vaney DI. 1984. 'Coronate' amacrine cells in the rabbit retina have the 'starburst' dendritic morphology. Proc R Soc Lond B 220:501-508.
48. Vaney DI, Taylor WR. 2002. Direction selectivity in the retina. Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:405-410.
49. Zhou ZJ, Fain GL. 1995. Neurotransmitter receptors of starburst amacrine cells in rabbit retinal slices. J Neurosci 15:5334-5345.