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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 1, 1998, 18(1):1-9
Effects of the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Antagonist MCPG on Phosphoinositide Turnover and Synaptic Plasticity in Visual Cortex
Kimberly M. Huber, Nathaniel B. Sawtell, and Mark F. Bear Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
The neurotransmitter glutamate, in addition to activating ligand-gated ion channels, also stimulates phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis in neurons by activating a group of G-protein-coupled metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). A role for mGluRs in synaptic plasticity originally was hypothesized based on the observation that the developmental decline in glutamate-stimulated PI turnover is well correlated with the decline in experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in visual cortex. Over the past few years, the compound
-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG) has been widely used to test the role of PI-coupled mGluRs in a number of types of synaptic plasticity, including long-term potentiation (LTP), long-term depression (LTD), ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex, and the neural plasticity underlying learning and memory. The conclusions of most of these studies were based on the assumption that MCPG blocks the actions of glutamate at PI-coupled mGluRs in the cerebral cortex. Here we show that this assumption is not valid in visual cortex. Although MCPG does antagonize the actions of the synthetic mGluR agonist 1S,3R-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, it fails to block PI turnover and changes in spike adaptation stimulated by glutamate, the endogenous mGluR ligand. In addition, we find that MCPG fails to block the NMDA receptor-dependent forms of LTP, LTD, and depotentiation in visual cortex.
Key words: visual cortex; metabotropic glutamate receptor; development; synaptic plasticity; long-term potentiation; long-term depression
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/1811-09$05.00/0
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