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J Neurophysiol 85: 384-390, 2001;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 85 No. 1 January 2001, pp. 384-390
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Attenuated LTP in Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus Neurons of Mice Deficient in the PAF Receptor

Chu Chen, Jeffrey C. Magee, Victor Marcheselli, Mattie Hardy, and Nicolas G. Bazan

Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

Chen, Chu, Jeffrey C. Magee, Victor Marcheselli, Mattie Hardy, and Nicolas G. Bazan. Attenuated LTP in Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus Neurons of Mice Deficient in the PAF Receptor. J. Neurophysiol. 85: 384-390, 2001. Platelet-activating factor (PAF), a bioactive lipid (1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) derived from phospholipase A2 and other pathways, has been implicated in neural plasticity and memory formation. Long-term potentiation (LTP) can be induced by the application of PAF and blocked by a PAF receptor (PAF-R) inhibitor in the hippocampal CA1 and dentate gyrus. To further investigate the role of PAF in synaptic plasticity, we compared LTP in dentate granule cells from hippocampal slices of adult mice deficient in the PAF-R and their age-matched wild-type littermates. Whole cell patch-clamp recordings were made in the current-clamp mode. LTP in the perforant path was induced by a high-frequency stimulation (HFS) and defined as >20% increase above baseline of the amplitude of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) from 26 to 30 min after HFS. HFS-induced enhancement of the EPSP amplitude was attenuated in cells from the PAF-R-deficient mice (163 ± 14%, mean ± SE; n = 32) when compared with that in wild-type mice (219 ± 17%, n = 32). The incidence of LTP induction was also lower in the cells from the deficient mice (72%, 23 of 32 cells) than in the wild-type mice (91%, 29 of 32 cells). Using paired-pulse facilitation as a synaptic pathway discrimination, it appeared that there were differences in LTP magnitudes in the lateral perforant path but not in the medial perforant path between the two groups. BN52021 (5 µM), a PAF synaptosomal receptor antagonist, reduced LTP in the lateral path in the wild-type mice. However, neither BN52021, nor BN50730 (5 µM), a microsomal PAF-R antagonist, reduced LTP in the lateral perforant path in the receptor-deficient mice. These data provide evidence that PAF-R-deficient mice are a useful model to study LTP in the dentate gyrus and support the notion that PAF actively participates in hippocampal synaptic plasticity.







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