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Volume 17, Number 10,
Issue of May 15, 1997
pp. 3476-3487
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Arachidonic Acid Inhibits Transient Potassium Currents and
Broadens Action Potentials during Electrographic Seizures in
Hippocampal Pyramidal and Inhibitory Interneurons
Received Jan. 13, 1997; revised Feb. 25, 1997; accepted March 3, 1997.
Sotirios Keros and
Chris J. McBain
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4495
The transient outward potassium current was studied in outside-out
macropatches excised from the soma of CA1 pyramidal neurons and stratum
(st.) oriens-alveus inhibitory interneurons in rat hippocampal slices.
Arachidonic acid dose dependently decreased the charge transfer
associated with the transient current, concomitant with an increase in
the rate of current inactivation. Arachidonic acid (AA) did not
affect the voltage dependence of steady state inactivation but did
prolong the period required for complete recovery from inactivation.
The effects of AA were mimicked by the nonmetabolizable analog
of AA, 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid, suggesting that
metabolic products of AA were not responsible for the observed
blocking action. In addition, AA blocked st. oriens-alveus-lacunosum-moleculare interneuron transient currents but
not currents recorded from basket cell interneurons. In current clamp
experiments, AA was without effect on the action potential waveform of CA1 pyramidal neurons under control recording conditions. In voltage-clamp experiments, the use of a test pulse paradigm, designed to mimic the action potential voltage trajectory, revealed that the transient current normally associated with a single spike deactivates too rapidly for AA to have an effect. Transient
currents activated by longer duration "action potential" waveforms,
however, were attenuated by AA. Consistent with this finding was
the observation that AA broadened interictal spikes recorded in
the elevated [K+]o model of epilepsy. These
data suggest that AA liberated from hippocampal neurons may act
to block the transient current selectively in both CA1 pyramidal
neurons and inhibitory interneurons and to broaden action potentials
selectively under pathological conditions.
Key words:
arachidonate;
potassium currents;
stratum oriens
interneurons;
fatty acids;
interictal spikes;
CA1
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