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Volume 17, Number 19, Issue of October 1, 1997 pp. 7532-7540
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience

Rapid Seizure-Induced Reduction of Benzodiazepine and Zn²⁺ Sensitivity of Hippocampal Dentate Granule Cell GABA_A Receptors

Received March 7, 1997; revised June 24, 1997; accepted July 21, 1997.

Jaideep Kapur¹ and Robert L. Macdonald^{1, 2}

Departments of ¹ Neurology and ² Physiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-1687

Fast synaptic inhibition in the forebrain is mediated primarily by GABA acting on GABA_A receptors (GABARs). GABARs are regulated by numerous positive (barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and neurosteroids) and negative (picrotoxin, bicuculline, and Zn²⁺) allosteric modulators. The sensitivity of GABARs to GABA and to allosteric modulators changes gradually during normal development, during development of chronic epilepsy, and after prolonged exposure to GABAR agonists. Here we report the development of rapid functional plasticity of GABARs occurring over 45 min of continuous seizures (status epilepticus) in rats. Seizures induced in rats by administration of lithium followed by pilocarpine were readily terminated by the benzodiazepine diazepam when administered early during the seizures (after 10 min of seizures). However, during status epilepticus, there was a substantial reduction of diazepam potency for termination of the seizures. To determine whether the loss of sensitivity of the animals to diazepam was caused by an alteration of GABAR functional properties, we obtained whole-cell GABAR currents from hippocampal dentate granule cells isolated acutely from control rats and from rats undergoing status epilepticus. GABAR properties were characterized by determining GABA sensitivity and the sensitivity of GABARs to regulation by benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and Zn²⁺. When compared with those from naive controls, GABAR currents from rats undergoing status epilepticus were less sensitive to diazepam and Zn²⁺ but retained their sensitivity to GABA and pentobarbital. We conclude that the prolonged seizures of status epilepticus rapidly altered the functional properties of hippocampal dentate granule cell GABARs.

Key words: status epilepticus; seizures; GABA; diazepam; benzodiazepines; zinc; GABA_A receptors; pentobarbital; barbiturates; dentate gyrus; granule cells; hippocampus

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