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The Journal of Neuroscience, August 20, 2003, 23(20):7659-7669

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Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Monkey Striatum: Subsynaptic Association with Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Afferents

Maryse Paquet and Yoland Smith

Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are involved in long-term synaptic plasticity and neuroprotection in the striatum, but the specific role(s) of mGluR1 and mGluR5 remain poorly understood. In this study, we used electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry to compare the pattern of subsynaptic and subcellular distribution of mGluR1a and mGluR5 in relation to putative glutamatergic and dopaminergic inputs to the monkey striatum.

At the light-microscopic level, both group I mGluRs are expressed in the striatal neuropil. In addition, numerous perikarya of striatal output neurons are immunostained for mGluR5, but much less frequently for mGluR1a. At the electron-microscopic level, immunoreactivity for both receptor subtypes is primarily expressed postsynaptically in dendrites and spines, although presynaptic mGluR1a labeling of glutamatergic thalamostriatal boutons and, less frequently, dopaminergic and corticostriatal terminals is also seen. In contrast to mGluR1a, mGluR5 immunoreactivity is rarely encountered presynaptically. In postsynaptic elements, 40-70% of immunoreactivity for both receptor subtypes is expressed intracellularly, whereas 30-60% is apposed to the plasma membrane. More than 80% of the labeling apposed to the plasma membrane is extrasynaptic. The remaining 20% is located at the edges of putative glutamatergic synapses or in the active zone of symmetric synapses. In mGluR5-, but not mGluR1a-immunostained sections, 70% of dopaminergic symmetric synapses are labeled perisynaptically.

These data emphasize the differential pattern of subsynaptic localization of the two group I mGluRs and provide various presynaptic and postsynaptic sites whereby mGluR1 and mGluR5 could mediate different, but complementary, effects on glutamatergic and dopaminergic transmission in the primate striatum.

Key words: caudate nucleus; putamen; extrasynaptic receptors; immunogold; corticostriatal; thalamostriatal; nigrostriatal

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Received Feb. 3, 2003; revised Jun. 17, 2003; accepted Jun. 23, 2003.

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