کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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10956934 | 1099465 | 2005 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Differential GABAA receptor clustering determines GABA synapse plasticity in rat oxytocin neurons around parturition and the onset of lactation
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری
بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی
بیولوژی سلول
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چکیده انگلیسی
Expression, functional properties, and clustering of α1-, α2-, and α3-subunit containing GABAA receptors (GABAARs) were studied in dorsomedial SON neurons of the adult female rat supraoptic nucleus (SON) around parturition. We show that, although the decay time constant (Ïdecay) of GABAergic postsynaptic currents between and within individual recordings was very diverse, ranging from fast (i.e., α1-like) to significantly slower (i.e., non-α1-like), there was an overall shift towards slower decaying synaptic currents during the onset of lactation. This shift is not due to changes in mRNA expression levels, because real-time quantitative PCR assays indicated that the relative contribution of α1, α2, and α3 remained the same before and after parturition. Also, changes in phosphorylation levels are not likely to affect the Ïdecay of postsynaptic currents. In α-latrotoxin (α-LTX)-induced bursts of synaptic currents from individual synapses, the Ïdecay of consecutive synaptic events within bursts was very similar, but between bursts there were large differences in Ïdecay. This suggested that different synapses within individual SON neurons contain distinct GABAAR subtypes. Using multilabeling confocal microscopy, we examined the distribution of postsynaptic α1-, α2-, and α3-GABAARs, based on colocalization with gephyrin. We show that the three GABAAR subtypes occurred either in segregated clusters of one subtype as well as in mixed clusters of two or possibly even three receptor subtypes. After parturition, the density and proportion of clusters containing α2- (or α3-), but not α1-GABAARs, was significantly increased. Thus, the functional synaptic diversity at the postsynaptic level in dorsomedial SON neurons is correlated with a differential clustering of distinct GABAAR subtypes at individual synapses.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience - Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 128-140
Journal: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience - Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 128-140
نویسندگان
Jan-Jurjen Koksma, Jean-Marc Fritschy, Volker Mack, Ronald E. Van Kesteren, Arjen B. Brussaard,