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Volume 16, Number 23, Issue of December 1, 1996 pp. 7540-7549
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience

Differential Distribution of Functional Receptors for Neuromodulators Evoking Short-Term Heterosynaptic Plasticity in Aplysia Sensory Neurons

Received Aug. 30, 1996; revised Sept. 17, 1996; accepted Sept. 18, 1996.

Zhong-Yi Sun, Beth Kauderer, and Samuel Schacher

Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032

Synaptic transmission and excitability in Aplysia sensory neurons (SNs) are bidirectionally modulated by 5-HT and FMRFamide. To explore the regional distribution of different functional receptors that modulate SN properties, we examined changes in synaptic efficacy and excitability with brief focal applications of the neuromodulators to different regions of SNs that have established connections with motor cell L7 in culture. Short-term changes in synaptic efficacy were evoked only when 5-HT or FMRFamide was applied to regions with SN varicosities along the surface of L7 axons. Applications to adjacent SN neurites with few varicosities in contact with L7 axons failed to evoke a significant change in synaptic efficacy. The distribution of functional receptors mediating changes in excitability differed for 5-HT and FMRFamide. Whereas excitability increases were evoked only when 5-HT was applied to SN cell bodies, excitability decreases in SNs were evoked only when FMRFamide was applied to regions along the L7 axon with SN varicosities. Without the target cell, cell bodies of SNs expressed both 5-HT and FMRFamide receptors that modulate excitability. These results indicate that functional G-protein-coupled receptors for two neuromodulators are distributed differentially along the surface of a presynaptic neuron that forms chemical connections in vitro. This differential distribution of receptors on the presynaptic neuron is regulated by a target and does not require the physical presence of neurons that release the neuromodulators.

Key words: key words: serotonin receptors; FMRFamide receptors; synaptic plasticity; excitability; short-term; Aplysia; sensory neuron

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