کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2198774 1099402 2010 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Development of synaptic inhibition in glycine transporter 2 deficient mice
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی بیولوژی سلول
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Development of synaptic inhibition in glycine transporter 2 deficient mice
چکیده انگلیسی

Mice deficient for the neuronal glycine transporter subtype 2 (GlyT2) die during the second postnatal week after developing neuromotor deficiencies, which resembles severe forms of human hyperekplexia. This phenotype has been attributed to a dramatic reduction in glycinergic neurotransmission.In the present study we analyzed the development of GABAergic and glycinergic synaptic transmission in GlyT2-knockout mice during early postnatal life. Anti-glycine immunohistochemistry in spinal cord and brainstem slices and whole-cell voltage-clamp recordings of glycinergic inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) from hypoglossal motoneurons revealed strikingly reduced levels of synaptic glycine already at birth. Since GABA and glycine use the same vesicular inhibitory amino acid transporter (VIAAT or VGAT) we also analysed GABAergic neurotransmission. No increase of GABA immunoreactivity was observed in the spinal cord and brainstem of GlyT2−/− mice at any stage of postnatal development. Correspondingly no up-regulation of GABAergic IPSCs was detected in GlyT2−/− hypoglossal motoneurons.These data suggest that in the first postnatal week, loss of the glycine transporter 2 is neither compensated by glycine de-novo synthesis nor by up-regulation of the GABAergic transmission in GlyT2−/− mice.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience - Volume 44, Issue 4, August 2010, Pages 342–352
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