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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 1, 2004, 24(35):7623-7631; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1999-04.2004
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GABA Release and Uptake Regulate Neuronal Precursor Migration in the Postnatal Subventricular Zone
Anna J. Bolteus and
Angélique Bordey
Departments of Neurosurgery and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8082
In the postnatal subventricular zone (SVZ), astrocyte-like cells tightly encapsulate chains of migrating neuronal precursors, although an influence of the astrocyte-like cells on precursor migration has not yet been demonstrated. Cell migration was studied in acute sagittal brain slices to determine whether GABA signaling between astrocyte-like cells and neuronal precursors controls the speed of neuronal precursor migration in the anterior SVZ and rostral migratory stream of juvenile and adult mice. Application of GABA at 10 µM, a nondesensitizing concentration for GABAA receptors (GABAARs), reduced the rate (mean of 50 µm/hr) of cell migration by 21% via GABAAR activation. Application of the GABAAR antagonist bicuculline enhanced the migration rate by 30%, suggesting that endogenous GABA tonically reduces the speed of cell migration via GABAAR activation. Using immunohistochemistry, we found that astrocyte-like cells express the high-affinity GABA transporter subtype GAT4 on processes ensheathing neuronal precursors that contain GABA. Inhibition of GABA uptake into astrocyte-like cells or enhancement of GABA release from neuronal precursors during high K+ application further reduced the migration rate by increasing ambient GABA levels. GABA altered the migration speed by interfering with intracellular Ca2+ signaling independently of cell depolarization, because high K+ application did not alter the speed of cell migration in the presence of bicuculline. These data indicate that astrocyte-like cells create a microenvironment in which their uniquely positioned GABA transporters control the degree of GABAAR activation and the migration of neuronal precursors.
Key words: astrocyte (astroglia); calcium (Ca); GABAergic; proliferation; receptor; transport; rostral migratory stream
Received May 24, 2004;
revised June 22, 2004;
accepted July 12, 2004.
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