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Volume 16, Number 19, Issue of October 1, 1996 pp. 5942-5950
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience

Characterizing the Site and Mode of Action of Dynorphin at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses in the Guinea Pig

Received March 15, 1996; revised July 2, 1996; accepted July 8, 1996.

Pablo E. Castillo, Paul A. Salin, Marc G. Weisskopf, and Roger A. Nicoll

Departments of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0450

Extracellular field potential recordings from the CA3 region in guinea pig hippocampal slices were used to study the release and action of dynorphin at the mossy fiber synapse. Dynorphin A(1-17) or U69593 inhibited mossy fiber synaptic responses in preparations in which the CA3 region was surgically isolated from the rest of the hippocampus. This inhibition was completely reversed by the ₁ selective antagonist nor-BNI, thus establishing the presence of functional ₁ receptors in CA3. Inhibitory effects of dynorphin on mossy fiber responses were unaltered in the presence of the N- or P-type Ca²⁺ channel blockers, -CgTx or -Aga IVA, respectively. This indicates that the action of dynorphin is independent of the particular type of Ca²⁺ channel that mediates transmitter release at the mossy fiber terminal. Heterosynaptic inhibition of mossy fiber responses was observed in the presence of nifedipine, -CgTx, or -Aga IVA, indicating that dynorphin release does not depend specifically on L-, N-, or P-type Ca²⁺ channels. The blockade of heterosynaptic inhibition by the membrane-permeant Ca²⁺ chelator EGTA-AM suggests the involvement of a slow Ca²⁺-dependent process in dynorphin release. On the basis of a variety of experimental evidence, we propose that the time course of heterosynaptic inhibition is determined primarily by the time course of clearance of dynorphin in the extracellular space.

Key words: dynorphin; receptors; calcium channels; hippocampus; mossy fibers; opioid

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