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J Neurophysiol 78: 2592-2601, 1997;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 78 No. 5 November 1997, pp. 2592-2601
Copyright ©1997 The American Physiological Society

Inwardly Rectifying and Ca2+-Permeable AMPA-Type Glutamate Receptor Channels in Rat Neocortical Neurons

Shun-Ichi Itazawa1, Tadashi Isa2, and Seiji Ozawa1

1 Department of Physiology, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371; and 2 Department of Integrative Physiology, The National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444, Japan

Itazawa, Shun-Ichi, Tadashi Isa, and Seiji Ozawa. Inwardly rectifying and Ca2+-permeable AMPA-type glutamate receptor channels in rat neocortical neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 2592-2605, 1997. Current-voltage (I-V) relations and Ca2+ permeability of alpha -amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)type glutamate receptor channels were investigated in neurons of rat neocortex by using the whole cell patch-clamp technique in brain slices. To activate AMPA receptor channels, kainate was used as a nondesensitizing agonist. A patch pipette was filled with solution containing 100 µM spermine to maintain the inward rectification of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptor channels. Three types of responses to kainate were observed: type I response with outwardly rectifying I-V relation, type II response with I-V relation of marked inward rectification, and intermediate response with I-V relation of weaker inward rectification. Neurons with type I, type II and intermediate I-V relations were referred to as type I, type II, and intermediate neurons, respectively. Of a total of 223 recorded cells, 90 (40.4%) were type I, 129 (57.8%) intermediate, and 4 (1.8%) type II neurons. Properties of AMPA receptor channels were examined in the former two types of neurons. The value of PCa:PCs, the ratio of the permeability coefficients of Ca2+ and Cs+, was estimated from the reversal potentials of kainate responses in the outside-out patches bathed in Na+-free solution containing 100 mM Ca2+ according to the constant-field equation. They ranged from 0.05 to 0.10 (0.08 ± 0.02, mean ± SD, n = 8) for type I neurons and from 0.14 to 1.29 (0.60 ± 0.37, n = 11) for the intermediate neurons. There was a close correlation between the inward rectification and the Ca2+ permeability in AMPA receptor channels in these neurons. Intermediate neurons stained with biocytin were nonpyramidal cells with ellipsoidal-shaped somata. Type I neurons had either triangular- or ellipsoidal-shaped somata. Excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) recorded in both type I and intermediate neurons had 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione-sensitive fast and D-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate-sensitiveslow components. The I-V relation of the fast component exhibited inward rectification in the intermediate neuron, whereas that in the type I neuron showed slight outward rectification. The fast component of EPSCs in the intermediate neuron was suppressed more prominently (to 56 ± 15% of the control, n = 12) than that in the type I neuron (to 78 ± 6% of the control, n = 6) by bath application of 1 mM spermine. These results indicate that inwardly rectifying and Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptor channels are expressed in a population of neurons of rat neocortex and are involved in excitatory synaptic transmission.




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