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1Committee on Neurobiology and 2Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Submitted 13 May 2005; accepted in final form 20 October 2005
The in vitro respiratory network contained in the transverse brain stem slice of mice simultaneously generates fast (
15 min-1) and slow (0.5 min-1) rhythmic activities corresponding to fictive eupnea ("normal" breathing) and fictive sighs. We show that these two activity patterns are differentially controlled through the modulatory actions of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). Sighs were selectively inhibited by agonists of the group III mGluRs according to a pharmacological profile most consistent with activation of mGluR8. Sighs were also blocked by the supposedly inactive L-isomer of the widely used N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (L-AP5, 5 µM), an effect that was abolished in the presence of group III mGluR antagonists. Excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were recorded in pre-Bötzinger Complex neurons after stimulation of the contralateral ventral respiratory group (VRG); evoked EPSP amplitude was variably reduced after bath application of the group III agonist L-serine-O-phospate (L-SOP), with an average reduction of 15%. Therefore although group III mGluRs do play a role in regulating synapse strength, this seems to be only a minor factor in the regulation of synapses made by midline-crossing axons. Intrinsic modulation of the respiratory central pattern generator by mGluRs appears to be an essential component of the multifunctionality that characterizes this network.
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