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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 1998, 18(5):1913-1922
Presynaptic GABAB Autoreceptor Modulation of P/Q-Type Calcium Channels and GABA Release in Rat Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Neurons
Gong Chen and Anthony N. van den Pol Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
GABA is the primary transmitter released by neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the circadian clock in the brain. Whereas GABAB receptor agonists exert a significant effect on circadian rhythms, the underlying mechanism by which GABAB receptors act in the SCN has remained a mystery. We found no GABAB receptor-mediated effect on slow potassium conductance, membrane potential, or input resistance in SCN neurons in vitro using whole-cell patch-clamp recording. In contrast, the GABAB receptor agonist baclofen (1-100 µM) exerted a large and dose-dependent inhibition (up to 100%) of evoked IPSCs. Baclofen reduced the frequency of spontaneous IPSCs but showed little effect on the frequency or amplitude of miniature IPSCs in the presence of tetrodotoxin. The activation of GABAB receptors did not modulate postsynaptic GABAA receptor responses. The depression of GABA release by GABAB autoreceptors appeared to be mediated primarily through a modulation of presynaptic calcium channels. The baclofen inhibition of both calcium currents and evoked IPSCs was greatly reduced (up to 100%) by the P/Q-type calcium channel blocker agatoxin IVB, suggesting that P/Q-type calcium channels are the major targets involved in the modulation of GABA release. To a lesser degree, N-type calcium channels were also involved. The inhibition of GABA release by baclofen was abolished by a pretreatment with pertussis toxin (PTX), whereas the inhibition of whole-cell calcium currents by baclofen was only partially depressed by PTX, suggesting that G-protein mechanisms involved in GABAB receptor modulation at the soma and axon terminal may not be identical. We conclude that GABAB receptor activation exerts a strong presynaptic inhibition of GABA release in SCN neurons, primarily by modulating P/Q-type calcium channels at axon terminals.
Key words: GABA; GABAB receptor; suprachiasmatic nucleus; circadian; neuromodulation; presynaptic; autapse; G-protein
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/1851913-10$05.00/0
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