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J Neurophysiol 88: 3097-3107, 2002; doi:10.1152/jn.00026.2002
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J Neurophysiol (December 1, 2002). 10.1152/jn.00026.2002
Submitted on 14 January 2002
Accepted on 5 August 2002

Development of GABAA Receptor-Mediated Inhibitory Postsynaptic Currents in Hippocampus

Matthew I. Banks, Jason B. Hardie, and Robert A. Pearce

Department of Anesthesiology and Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Banks, Matthew I., Jason B. Hardie, and Robert A. Pearce. Development of GABAA Receptor-Mediated Inhibitory Postsynaptic Currents in Hippocampus. J. Neurophysiol. 88: 3097-3107, 2002. Hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells receive two kinetic classes of GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition: slow dendritic inhibitory postsynaptic currents (GABAA,slow IPSCs) and fast perisomatic (GABAA,fast) IPSCs. These two classes of IPSCs are likely generated by two distinct groups of interneurons, and we have previously shown that the kinetics of the IPSCs have important functional consequences for generating synchronous firing patterns. Here, we studied developmental changes in the properties of GABAA,fast and GABAA,slow spontaneous, miniature, and evoked IPSCs (sIPSCs, mIPSCs, and eIPSCs, respectively) using whole cell voltage-clamp recordings in brain slices from animals aged P10-P35. We found that the rate of GABAA,slow sIPSCs increased by over 70-fold between P11 and P35 (from 0.0017 to 0.12 s-1). Over this same age range, we observed a >3.5-fold increase in the maximal amplitude of GABAA,slow eIPSCs evoked by stratum lacunosum-moleculare (SL-M) stimuli. However, the rate and amplitude of GABAA,slow mIPSCs remained unchanged between P10 and P30, suggesting that the properties of GABAA,slow synapses remained stable over this age range, and that the increase in sIPSC rate and in eIPSC amplitude was due to increased excitability or excitation of GABAA,slow interneurons. This hypothesis was tested using bath application of norepinephrine (NE), which we found at low concentrations (1 µM) selectively increased the rate of GABAA,slow sIPSCs while leaving GABAA,fast sIPSCs unchanged. This effect was observed in animals as young as P13 and was blocked by coapplication of tetrodotoxin, suggesting that NE was acting to increase the spontaneous firing rate of GABAA,slow interneurons and consistent with our hypothesis that developmental changes in GABAA,slow IPSCs are due to changes in presynaptic excitability. In contrast to the changes we observed in GABAA,slow IPSCs, the properties of GABAA,fast sIPSCs remained largely constant between P11 and P35, whereas the rate, amplitude, and kinetics of GABAA,fast mIPSCs showed significant changes between P10 and P30, suggesting counterbalancing changes in action potential-dependent GABAA,fast sIPSCs. These observations suggest differential developmental regulation of the firing properties of GABAA,fast and GABAA,slow interneurons in CA1 between P10 and P35.




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