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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 1, 2001, 21(17):6492-6501
Dopamine-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the
Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons
Takeo
Suzuki1, 2,
Masami
Miura1,
Kin-ya
Nishimura1, 2, and
Toshihiko
Aosaki1
1 Department of the Autonomic Nervous System, Tokyo
Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan, and 2 Department of Anesthesiology, School of
Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
The striatum, the input stage of the basal ganglia, is a critical
brain structure for the learning of stimulus-response habits as well
as motor, perceptual, and cognitive skills. Roles of dopamine (DA) and
acetylcholine (ACh) in this form of implicit memory have long been
considered essential, but the underlying cellular mechanism is still
unclear. By means of patch-clamp recordings from corticostriatal slices
of the mouse, we studied whether the identified striatal cholinergic
interneurons undergo long-term synaptic changes after tetanic
stimulation of cortico- and thalamostriatal fibers. Electrical stimulation of the fibers revealed a depolarizing and hyperpolarizing postsynaptic potential in the striatal cholinergic interneurons. The
early depolarizing phase was considered to be a cortico/thalamostriatal glutamatergic EPSP, and the hyperpolarizing component was considered to
be an intrastriatally evoked GABAergic IPSP. Tetanic stimulation of
cortico/thalamostriatal fibers was found to induce simultaneously occurring long-term potentiation (LTP) of the EPSPs as well as the
disynaptically mediated IPSPs. The induction of LTP of EPSP required a
rise in intracellular Ca2+ concentration and
dopamine D5, but not D2 receptor
activation. Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors might also
play a part in the LTP induction. Blockade of NMDA receptors,
metabotropic glutamate receptors, or serotonin receptors had no
significant effects. The long-term enhancement of the disynaptic IPSPs
was caused by a long-term increase in the occurrence rate but not the
amplitude of disynaptically mediated IPSP in the striatal cholinergic
interneurons. This dual mechanism of synaptic plasticity may be
responsible for the long-term modulation of the cortico/thalamostriatal
synaptic transmission.
Key words:
LTP; dopamine; acetylcholine; striatum; cholinergic; synaptic plasticity
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21176492-10$05.00/0
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