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J Neurophysiol 80: 520-528, 1998;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 80 No. 2 August 1998, pp. 520-528
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

Postsynaptic Current Mediated by Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells

Filippo Tempia, Maria Concetta Miniaci, Davide Anchisi, and Piergiorgio Strata

Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy

Tempia, Filippo, Maria Concetta Miniaci, Davide Anchisi, and Piergiorgio Strata. Postsynaptic current mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors in cerebellar Purkinje cells. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 520-528, 1998. In rat cerebellar slices, repetitive parallel fiber stimulation evokes an inward, postsynaptic current in Purkinje cells with a fast component mediated by alpha -amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)/kainate receptors and a slower component mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR). The mGluR-mediated excitatory postsynaptic current (mGluR-EPSC) is evoked selectively by parallel fiber stimulation; climbing fiber stimulation is ineffective. The mGluR-EPSC is elicited most effectively with increasing frequencies of parallel fiber stimulation, from a threshold of 10 Hz to a maximum response at ~100 Hz. The amplitude of the mGluR-EPSC is a linear function of the number of stimulus pulses without any apparent saturation, even with >10 pulses. Thus mGluRs at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse can function as linear detectors of the number of spikes in a burst of activity in parallel fibers. The mGluR-EPSC is present from postnatal day 15 and persists into adulthood. It is inhibited by the generic mGluR antagonist (RS)-a-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine and by the group I mGluR antagonist (RS)-1-aminoindan-1,5-dicarboxylic acid at a concentration selective for mGluR1. Although the intracellular transduction pathway involves a G protein, the putative mediators of mGluR1 (phospholipase C and protein kinase C) are not directly involved, indicating that the mGluR-EPSC studied here is mediated by a different and still unidentified second-messenger pathway. Heparin, a nonselective antagonist of inositol-trisphosphate (IP3) receptors, has no significant effect on the mGluR-EPSC, suggesting that also IP3 might be not required for the response. Buffering intracellular Ca2+ with a high concentration of bis-(o-aminophenoxy)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid partially inhibits the mGluR-EPSC, indicating that Ca2+ is not directly responsible for the response but that resting Ca2+ levels exert a tonic potentiating effect on the mGluR-EPSC.




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