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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 1, 1998, 18(19):7836-7846
Glutamate Receptor Activity Is Required for Normal Development of
Tectal Cell Dendrites In Vivo
Indrani
Rajan and
Hollis T.
Cline
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724
Glutamatergic retinotectal inputs mediated principally by NMDA
receptors can be recorded from optic tectal neurons early during their
morphological development in Xenopus tadpoles. As tectal cell dendrites elaborate, retinotectal synaptic responses acquire an
AMPA receptor-mediated synaptic component, in addition to the NMDA
component. Here, we tested whether glutamatergic activity was required
for the elaboration of dendritic arbors in Xenopus optic
tectal neurons. In vivo time-lapse imaging of single
DiI-labeled neurons shows that the NMDA receptor antagonist APV (100 µM) blocked the early development of the tectal cell
dendritic arbor, whereas the AMPA receptor antagonist CNQX (20 µM) or the sodium channel blocker TTX (1 µM) did not. The decreased dendritic development is
attributable to failure to add new branches and extend preexisting branches. These observations indicate that NMDA-type glutamatergic activity promotes the initial development of the dendritic arbor. At
later stages of tectal neuron development when AMPA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission is strong, both APV and CNQX decrease dendritic arbor branch length, consistent with a role for glutamatergic synaptic
transmission in maintaining dendritic arbor structure. These results
indicate that AMPA and NMDA receptors can differentially influence
dendritic growth at different stages of neuronal development, in
correlation with changes in the relative contribution of the receptor
subtype to synaptic transmission.
Key words:
NMDA receptor; dendrite growth; in vivo
imaging; activity-dependent; Xenopus development; retinotectal
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/18197836-11$05.00/0
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