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Volume 16, Number 20, Issue of October 15, 1996 pp. 6342-6352
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience

GABAB Receptors, Monoamine Receptors, and Postsynaptic Inositol Trisphosphate-Induced Ca2+ Release Are Involved in the Induction of Long-Term Potentiation at Visual Cortical Inhibitory Synapses

Yukio Komatsu

Department of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602, Japan

ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS AND METHODS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
FOOTNOTES
REFERENCES

ABSTRACT

gamma -Aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptor-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission in visual cortex undergoes long-term potentiation (LTP), which is input-specific and associative. The present study, conducted under a blockade of ionotropic glutamate receptors, demonstrates an induction mechanism of LTP considerably different from those of associative LTP at excitatory synapses. Inhibitory responses of layer V cells evoked by layer IV stimulation were studied in developing rat visual cortex slices by using intracellular and whole-cell recording methods. LTP induction was prevented by the application of an antagonist for GABAB receptors but not for GABAA or metabotropic glutamate receptors. Inhibition of postsynaptic G-proteins, phospholipase C, inositol trisphosphate (IP3) receptors, or Ca2+ increase prevented the generation of LTP, as did the blockade of GABAB receptors.

In rat cerebral cortex, GABAB receptor activation is not known to affect the IP3 level by itself. However, it facilitates IP3 formation induced by the activation of alpha 1 adrenoceptors, which are believed to be located postsynaptically. Accordingly, I examined the involvement of these and other amine receptors, including histamine H1, muscarinic acetylcholine, and serotonin 5-HT2 receptors, all of which are coupled to IP3 formation. Only the blockade of alpha 1 adrenoceptors or serotonin 5-HT2 receptors prevented LTP induction in most, but not all, of the cells. These results suggest that LTP induction requires the activation of postsynaptic GABAB receptors and that its effect is mediated at least partly by facilitation of the monoamine-induced IP3 formation, which then causes Ca2+ release from the internal stores in postsynaptic cells.

Key words: long-term potentiation; inhibitory synaptic transmission; visual cortex; GABAA receptor; GABAB receptor; alpha 1 adrenoceptor; serotonin 5-HT2 receptor; phospholipase C; inositol trisphosphate; G-protein; Ca2+

INTRODUCTION

Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission is considered to be a cellular process underlying memory and learning. Although LTP has been found and analyzed mostly at glutamatergic excitatory synapses (Teyler and DiScenna, 1987), I have found recently that LTP also occurs in gamma -aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission of visual cortical cells (Komatsu and Iwakiri, 1993). This synaptic modification could underlie the experience-dependent development of visual responsiveness in these cells, because it is induced more easily in developing than in mature animals (Komatsu, 1994). LTP at the inhibitory synapses has properties similar to those seen in most LTPs at excitatory synapses (Teyler and DiScenna, 1987). They occur specifically at synapses activated by conditioning stimulation. In addition, they require coactivation of more than a threshold number of presynaptic fibers for their induction and consequently are associative, which could be a basis of some form of learning.

Although LTPs at the excitatory and inhibitory synapses have similar basic properties, the induction mechanism seems different. At the excitatory synapses of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells, LTP is initiated by Ca2+ entry into postsynaptic cells through NMDA receptor channels (Collingridge et al., 1983; Lynch et al., 1983). The voltage dependence of these channels could explain the voltage dependence of LTP induction and, consequently, the associativity of LTP (Collingridge and Bliss, 1987; Gustafsson and Wigström, 1988; Madison et al., 1991). In contrast, our recent work has suggested that LTP induction at the inhibitory synapses is not dependent on postsynaptic membrane potential (Komatsu, 1994), indicating that it is based on other mechanisms. The present study was undertaken to determine which receptors are involved in the induction of LTP and to test whether postsynaptic cells participate in the induction.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Slice preparation. As described previously (Komatsu, 1994), coronal slices (400 µm thick) of visual cortex were prepared from Sprague Dawley rats at postnatal days 15-25 and perfused with a medium containing (in mM): 124 NaCl, 5 KCl, 1.3 MgSO4, 4 CaCl2, 1.2 KH2PO4, 26 NaHCO3, and 10 glucose at 33°C. During recording experiments, the perfusate contained 100 µM DL-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV), an NMDA receptor antagonist, and 40 µM 6,7-dinitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (DNQX), a non-NMDA receptor antagonist. In experiments in which GABAA receptors were blocked by adding bicuculline methiodide during conditioning stimulation, 200 µM D-APV or 400 µM DL-APV was applied instead of 100 µM DL-APV to ensure that NMDA receptors were blocked even during conditioning stimulation.

Stimulation. Two pairs of bipolar stimulating electrodes (s1 and s2) were placed in layer IV (see Fig. 1A). Layers II-IV were surgically cut between the two stimulating electrodes to ensure that they activated separate groups of presynaptic fibers (Komatsu, 1994). Test stimulation was applied alternately to s1 and s2 at an interval of 5 sec. The intensity of test stimuli was adjusted to 1.5-2.0 times the threshold intensity (1.5-2.0 T) to evoke an inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP) or current (IPSC). As a conditioning stimulation, 50 Hz, 1 sec stimulation was applied to one of the electrodes 10 times at an interval of 10 sec with an intensity of 5 T, unless otherwise mentioned.

Fig. 1. LTP is induced under blockade of GABAA receptors. A, Experimental arrangement of stimulating (s1 and s2) and recording electrodes (r). The dashed line indicates a surgical cut between s1 and s2. B, LTP in control solution. Left traces (a, b) show superimposed average (n = 4) IPSPs intracellularly recorded from a cell before and after conditioning stimulation for conditioned (s1) and unconditioned (s2) pathways. Recorded time is indicated in the lower graph. Right trace (CS) shows a response evoked by conditioning stimulation, and the start is indicated by an arrowhead. Voltage calibration is the same for all traces. The lower graph plots the falling slope of IPSP (% of the mean baseline level) against the time after conditioning stimulation. Squares and triangles (mean ± SD for 13 tested cells) represent responses of conditioned and unconditioned pathways, respectively. There was no significant difference (p > 0.1) between the resting membrane potential before (57 ± 5 mV; n = 13) and 60 min after (57 ± 6 mV) conditioning stimulation. The effect of conditioning stimulation is illustrated similarly in the following figures. C, Similar to B, but conditioning stimulation was given during addition of 30 µM bicuculline methiodide to the perfusate, and the drug application period is indicated by a bar (Bic) in the lower graph (average for 6 cells). There was no significant difference (p > 0.6) between the resting membrane potential 20 min before (56 ± 4 mV; n = 6) and 60 min after (55 ± 4 mV) conditioning stimulation.
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Intracellular recording. IPSPs were recorded with microelectrode pipettes containing 2 M K-methylsulfate (90-150 MOmega ). Cells with a stable resting membrane potential more hyperpolarized than -50 mV were selected for analysis. When the resting membrane potential was very hyperpolarized and consequently the amplitude of IPSP evoked by test stimulation was too small, the membrane potential was depolarized by current injection through the recording electrode to increase IPSP amplitude. In part of the experiments, intracellular recording was made with pipettes containing 3 M Cs-acetate (90-150 MOmega ). In these cells, the resting membrane potential was depolarized gradually over a time period after penetration, and hyperpolarizing currents were injected when cells fired at the resting membrane potential. Therefore, the effect of antagonists on the synaptic responses was analyzed for cells that showed only a small change in the resting membrane potential during application of the antagonists. Input resistance was monitored throughout the experiments by injecting 0.1 nA hyperpolarizing current pulses of 300 msec duration, and it did not change significantly in association with LTP as described previously (Komatsu and Iwakiri, 1993). A conventional bridge circuit was used to record the membrane potential while current injection was made through the recording electrode.

Whole-cell recording. IPSCs were recorded with patch pipettes in the whole-cell mode (Axopatch 200A, Axon Instruments, Foster City, CA). Patch pipettes were pulled from thin-wall borosilicate glass and had a resistance of 3-6 MOmega . They were filled with a solution containing (in mM): 125 Cs-gluconate, 40 HEPES, 1 EGTA, 5 MgCl2, 2 Na-ATP, and 0.6 Na-GTP, pH 7.2 (with CsOH) for the control experiments to test the effect of guanosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) (GDPbeta S) or guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate)(GTPgamma S) on LTP. When GTP was replaced with GDPbeta S or GTPgamma S, or when EGTA was replaced with 10 mM bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetra-acetic acid (BAPTA), the concentration of Cs-gluconate was adjusted so that the osmolarity of the solution was unchanged. Cs-gluconate was replaced with K-gluconate, pH 7.2 (with KOH) when the effect of baclofen was tested. Cells with a high seal resistance (>1 GOmega ) and a series resistance < 30 MOmega (12-30 MOmega ) were selected for analysis. The series resistance, monitored throughout the recording, was not compensated. Input resistance was 100-500 MOmega at -50 mV. Unless otherwise mentioned, cells were voltage-clamped at +20 mV during the test stimulation to record a large amplitude of IPSCs by increasing the driving force on Cl-, which permeates GABAA receptor channels. They were also held at +20 mV during conditioning stimulation. LTP was induced in the same way at the depolarized (+20 mV) or hyperpolarized (-90 mV) membrane potential (Komatsu, 1994). Stable responses were recorded for a longer period at the depolarized membrane potential, as compared with the hyperpolarized membrane potential in our experimental conditions. In the experiments that examined the effects of GDPbeta S, GTPgamma S, BAPTA, heparin, or 1-[6-[[17beta -3-methoxyestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-17-yl]amino]hexyl]-1H-pyrrole-2,5-dione (U73122) on LTP, tests were started 10 min after establishing whole-cell recording to allow diffusion of these compounds into the cell.

Data acquisition, statistical analysis, histology, and drugs. Data sampling was performed by a computer at an interval of 0.2 msec for most responses but at 10 sec for baclofen-induced outward currents. The statistical test used was Student's t test. The laminar location of stimulation and recording electrodes was identified on histological sections stained with cresyl violet after the recording experiments (Komatsu, 1994). The compounds were obtained from the following sources: 2-hydroxysaclofen, (+)-alpha -methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine [(+)-MCPG], and DNQX from Tocris Cookson (Bristol, UK); atropine, APV, baclofen, bicuculline methiodide, GDPbeta S, GTPgamma S, heparin, and pyrilamine from Sigma (St. Louis, MO); prazosin and ketanserin from Research Biochemicals International (Natick, MA); BAPTA from Dojindo Laboratories (Kumamoto, Japan); and U73122 from Wako Pure Chemical (Osaka, Japan).

RESULTS

LTP of inhibitory synaptic transmission was studied in visual cortical slices prepared from developing rats in which the LTP is easily induced (Komatsu, 1994). IPSPs or IPSCs evoked monosynaptically by layer IV stimulation were recorded from layer V cells while slices were perfused with a control solution containing non-NMDA and NMDA receptor antagonists to block excitatory synaptic transmission. One of the two pairs of stimulating electrodes placed in layer IV (s1 and s2 in Fig. 1A) was used to test the effect of high-frequency conditioning stimulation; the other served as a control.

LTP occurs under blockade of GABAA receptors

To test whether activation of GABAA receptors, which mediate test IPSPs in these cells (Komatsu and Iwakiri, 1993), is necessary to induce LTP, a high dose of bicuculline methiodide (30 µM), a selective GABAA receptor antagonist, was added to the control solution. When test responses were abolished completely, conditioning stimulation was applied. After washout of the antagonist, LTP was manifested at a magnitude comparable to those in the control solution (Fig. 1B,C). This result suggests that substantial activation of GABAA receptors is unnecessary for LTP induction.

Although the application of bicuculline methiodide completely abolished test responses, the blockade of GABAA receptors might not be complete during conditioning stimulation, because a small hyperpolarizing response was still evoked by conditioning stimulation (CS, Fig. 1C). Therefore, the hyperpolarizing response was characterized. The addition of 30 µM bicuculline methiodide reduced responses evoked by high-frequency stimulation (Fig. 2A). The falling slope of the remaining response was ~70 times smaller (0.038 ± 0.018 V/sec; n = 6) than that seen in the control solution (2.6 ± 0.88 V/sec; n = 6) and reached a peak at 243 ± 54 msec after starting the stimulation. The slow hyperpolarization was reduced to 33 ± 9% (n = 5) of control by the addition of 100 µM 2-hydroxysaclofen (Kerr et al., 1988), a GABAB receptor antagonist (Fig. 2B), suggesting that it was mediated by GABAB receptors.

Fig. 2. GABAA receptors are blocked completely by application of bicuculline methiodide. A, Responses evoked in a cell by high-frequency stimulation (50 Hz, 1 sec) before (left trace) and after (right trace) the addition of 30 µM bicuculline methiodide to the control solution. B, Responses evoked in another cell perfused with a solution containing 30 µM bicuculline methiodide by high-frequency stimulation before (left trace) and after (right trace) the addition of 100 µM 2-hydroxysaclofen. The microelectrode contained K-methylsulfate in A and B. C, D, Similar to A and B, respectively. However, the microelectrodes contained Cs-acetate instead of K-methylsulfate, and 500 µM (+) MCPG was added instead of 2-hydroxysaclofen. These effects of antagonists accompanied no significant changes (p > 0.4) in input resistance or resting membrane potential. In these experiments, high-frequency stimulation (50 Hz, 1 sec) was applied with an intensity of 5 T at an interval of 1-3 min to avoid long-term effects on synaptic transmission. Time and voltage calibrations are common to A-D .
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To ensure that the slow hyperpolarization is mediated by GABAB, but not by GABAA, receptors, cells were recorded with electrodes containing Cs-acetate instead of K-methylsulfate, because GABAB receptor-coupled K+ channels are known to be blocked by Cs+ (Gähwiler and Brown, 1985). In the control solution without bicuculline methiodide, GABAA receptor-mediated IPSP was evoked in all cells (n = 6) in the same way as for the cells that were recorded with electrodes containing K-methylsulfate (Fig. 2A,C). However, no hyperpolarizing responses were recorded from any of the tested cells after bicuculline methiodide was added to the solution. Instead, high-frequency stimulation evoked small depolarizing responses (amplitude, 2.3 ± 0.37 mV; n = 6), which reached a peak after termination of the stimulation. This response seems to be mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), because it was reduced to one-fifth of control (20 ± 12%; n = 4) by the addition of high doses (500 µM) of (+)-MCPG (Eaton et al., 1993), an active isomer of an antagonist for mGluRs (Fig. 2D). Thus, it is concluded that 30 µM bicuculline methiodide is sufficient to block GABAA receptors during conditioning stimulation, and thereby the activation of GABAA receptors is not required to induce LTP.

Blockade of GABAB receptors prevents LTP induction

In contrast to the GABAA receptor antagonist, the addition of 100 µM 2-hydroxysaclofen to the perfusate during conditioning stimulation abolished the LTP (Fig. 3A), but it had no direct effect on test responses. At this concentration, only short-term potentiation (STP) could be induced, which returned to the baseline level by 30 min after conditioning stimulation. When the antagonist was applied soon after conditioning stimulation, LTP occurred in all of the tested cells (Fig. 3B), as it did in the control solution (Fig. 1B), indicating that GABAB receptors are involved in the induction, but not in the maintenance, of LTP.
Fig. 3. Application of GABAB receptor antagonists blocks LTP induction. A, Conditioning stimulation was given in the presence of 100 µM 2-hydroxysaclofen. The drug application period is indicated by a bar (Sac). Top traces (a-c) show superimposed test responses before and after conditioning stimulation. There was no significant difference (p > 0.3) between the resting membrane potential 20 min before (59 ± 6 mV; n = 9) and 40 min after (58 ± 7 mV) conditioning stimulation. B, 2-Hydroxysaclofen (100 µM) was applied soon after conditioning stimulation. There was no significant difference (p > 0.6) between the resting membrane potential before (60 ± 4 mV; n = 5) and 40 min after (61 ± 6 mV) conditioning stimulation. The time course was an average for nine (A) and five (B) tested cells. C, Displayed is the number of cells that showed LTP (filled bars), STP (shaded bars), or no change (open bars) for different doses of 2-hydroxysaclofen. D, Magnitude of LTP (mean ± SD) for cells that showed LTP (>15% increase from the baseline level at 30-40 min after conditioning stimulation). C, D, 2- Hydroxysaclofen was applied during conditioning stimulation, as shown in A.
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The incidence of potentiation, either LTP or STP, decreased with increases in the dose of the antagonist (Fig. 3C). Among the potentiated cells, the ratio of LTP to STP decreased as well. This suggests that both STP and LTP require activation of GABAB receptors for their induction and that LTP requires stronger activation than STP. Although 2-hydroxysaclofen decreased the incidence of LTP, its magnitude was not different (p > 0.9) from that in the control solution when LTP occurred (Fig. 3D).

Application of an mGluR antagonist MCPG does not affect LTP

Because the control solution contained antagonists for ionotropic glutamate receptors, but not for mGluRs, I tested whether mGluRs are involved in LTP induction. The addition of high doses of (+)-MCPG (500 µM) had no effect on either the test responses or the induction of LTP (Fig. 4). LTP occurred in all of the tested cells (n = 6), and there was no significant difference (p > 0.8) in the magnitude of LTP between control and solution containing MCPG (compare Fig. 4 with 1B). The doses of MCPG used in this study seemed to be effective to block mGluRs, because MCPG greatly reduced slow depolarizing responses recorded under the blockade of responses mediated by GABAA, GABAB, non-NMDA, and NMDA receptors (Fig. 2D). Therefore, it is unlikely that substantial activation of MCPG-sensitive subtypes of mGluRs is necessary to induce LTP.
Fig. 4. LTP is induced in the presence of an mGluR antagonist. The effect of conditioning stimulation was tested in six cells while 500 µM (+) MCPG was applied. There was no significant difference (p > 0.7) between the resting membrane potential 20 min before (59 ± 6 mV; n = 6) and 40 min after (59 ± 7 mV) conditioning stimulation.
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LTP requires activation of G-proteins in postsynaptic cells

GABAB receptors are known to be present in both presynaptic terminals and postsynaptic cells (Newberry and Nicoll, 1984; Gähwiler and Brown, 1985; Howe et al., 1987; Connors et al., 1988; Harrison, 1990). Because GABAB receptors are coupled to G-proteins (Andrade et al., 1986; Holz et al., 1986; Thalmann, 1988), involvement of postsynaptic GABAB receptors was tested by loading GDPbeta S, an inhibitor of G-proteins, into postsynaptic cells with the blind-patch whole-cell recording method (Blanton et al., 1989).

Cells recorded with patch electrodes containing 0.6 mM GTP showed LTP of IPSCs similar to that of IPSPs (compare Fig. 5A with 1B). When the electrode contained 1 mM GDPbeta S instead of GTP, conditioning stimulation elicited STP, but not LTP (Fig. 5B), although there was no significant difference (p > 0.4) in the IPSC amplitude evoked by conditioning stimulation between control (1.2 ± 0.2 nA; n = 8) and GDPbeta S-loaded cells (1.1 ± 0.3 nA; n = 11). GDPbeta S decreased the incidence of the potentiation dose dependently (Fig. 5C), as did 2-hydroxysaclofen (Fig. 3C), and there was no significant difference (p > 0.7) in the magnitude of LTP between control and GDPbeta S-loaded cells when LTP occurred (Fig. 5D). In addition, LTP induction was never found in cells loaded with 1 mM GTPgamma S, a nonhydrolyzable analog of GTP, which persistently activates G-proteins (Fig. 6). These results suggest that postsynaptic GABAB receptors are involved in the induction of LTP.

Fig. 5. Postsynaptic loading of GDPbeta S blocks LTP. A, LTP of IPSCs recorded with patch electrodes containing 0.6 mM GTP. B, Effect of conditioning stimulation on GDPbeta S (1 mM)-loaded cells. The time course is an average for 8 (A) and 11 (B) tested cells. C, Dependence of LTP and STP incidence on GDPbeta S concentration. D, Magnitude of LTP for cells that showed LTP is displayed.
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Fig. 6. Postsynaptic loading of GTPgamma S blocks LTP. Effect of conditioning stimulation on GTPgamma S (1 mM)-loaded cells. The time course is an average for six tested cells. The IPSC amplitude evoked by conditioning stimulation for GTPgamma S-loaded cells (1.1 ± 0.5 nA) was not significantly different (p > 0.6) from that for the control cells.
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To support this supposition, I tested whether postsynaptic GABAB receptors are commonly blocked by treatment of 2-hydroxysaclofen and GDPbeta S. GABAB receptors were activated by a bath application of baclofen, which is known to reduce transmitter release from presynaptic terminals and activate postsynaptic K+ channels via GABAB receptor activation (Newberry and Nicoll, 1984; Gähwiler and Brown, 1985; Howe et al., 1987; Harrison, 1990). The pre- and postsynaptic effects of the blockers were assessed, respectively, by their effects on IPSC reduction and outward K+ currents produced by baclofen during whole-cell voltage clamp with patch electrodes containing K+ instead of Cs+ (Fig. 7A,B).

Fig. 7. Effect of 2-hydroxysaclofen and GDPbeta S on presynaptic and postsynaptic baclofen-activated responses. A, Superimposed average (n = 4) IPSCs recorded from three cells before and during a bath application of 10 µM baclofen. The arrows indicate IPSCs evoked during a bath application of baclofen. Patch pipettes contained 0.6 mM GTP in the left and middle traces but 1 mM GDPbeta S in the right trace. Cells were perfused with control solution in left and right traces but with a solution containing 100 µM 2-hydroxysaclofen in the middle trace. B, Outward currents produced by a bath application of 10 µM baclofen. The left, middle, and right traces were recorded from the same cells as shown in A, respectively. The bar (Bac) indicates the application period of baclofen. C, D, Summary of the experiments illustrated in A and B. Number of cells is 9 for control, 10 for 2-hydroxysaclofen, and 10 for GDPbeta S, respectively. The asterisk indicates that the value is significantly different from the control value (p < 0.05). Cells were held at -40 mV.
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2-Hydroxysaclofen (100 µM) decreased IPSC reduction to approximately one-half of control and outward currents to one-third of control (Fig. 7C,D). GDPbeta S (1 mM) decreased the outward currents to one-fourth of control, but it did not affect IPSC reduction. The observation that postsynaptic, but not presynaptic, GABAB receptors were substantially blocked by both drugs is consistent with the above supposition.

LTP requires IP3-induced Ca2+ release in postsynaptic cells

To elucidate further the postsynaptic mechanism, I tested the effect of postsynaptic loading of a Ca2+ chelator BAPTA on LTP, because the induction of LTP at glycinergic inhibitory synapses, as well as most excitatory synapses, requires a Ca2+ increase in postsynaptic cells (Lynch et al., 1983; Malenka et al., 1988; Korn et al., 1992). No indication of LTP was demonstrated when cells were recorded with a patch electrode containing 10 mM BAPTA instead of 1 mM EGTA (Fig. 8A), suggesting that the LTP at these inhibitory synapses also requires a postsynaptic Ca2+ increase for the induction.
Fig. 8. LTP is blocked by postsynaptic loading of BAPTA, heparin, or U73122. A, Effect of conditioning stimulation on BAPTA (10 mM)-loaded cells. B, C, Similar to A, but for heparin (2 mg/ml)- and U73122 (20 µM)-loaded cells, respectively. The time course is an average for six tested cells in A-C. The IPSC amplitude evoked by conditioning stimulation for BAPTA (1.0 ± 0.4 nA), heparin (1.1 ± 0.2 nA), or U73122-loaded (0.9 ± 0.4 nA) cells was not significantly different (p > 0.1) from that for the control cells.
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It is unlikely that Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent channels is involved in the induction of LTP, because LTP was generated consistently by conditioning stimulation applied during voltage clamp at either -90 or +20 mV (Komatsu, 1994). Thus, it would be expected that the LTP is abolished by the blockade of Ca2+ release from internal stores. This possibility was supported by experiments in which cells were loaded with heparin, an antagonist for inositol trisphosphate (IP3) receptors (Hill et al., 1987; Worley et al., 1987), activation of which releases Ca2+ from internal stores (Berridge, 1993). As shown in Figure 8B, no indication of LTP was demonstrated when heparin (2 mg/ml) was added to the patch pipette solution. Furthermore, LTP induction was prevented by postsynaptic loading of 20 µM U73122 (Smith et al., 1990), an inhibitor of phospholipase C, activation of which produces IP3 (Fig. 8C). Therefore, it is likely that LTP induction requires IP3-induced Ca2+ release from internal stores in postsynaptic cells.

alpha 1 Adrenoceptors and serotonin 5-HT2 receptors participate in LTP induction

The observation that a blockade of GABAB receptors and postsynaptic G-proteins similarly prevented the generation of LTP suggests that the GABAB receptors convey signals for initiation of the LTP to postsynaptic cells. If so, postsynaptic GABAB receptor activation might form IP3 via the activation of phospholipase C. On the contrary, biochemical studies have demonstrated that application of GABAB receptor agonists alone does not affect the IP3 level in rat cerebral cortical slices (Crawford and Young, 1988). However, the activation of GABAB receptors facilitates alpha 1 adrenoceptor-mediated IP3 formation, whereas it depresses histamine H1 receptor mediated-IP3 formation or does not affect muscarinic receptor-mediated IP3 formation (Crawford and Young, 1988, 1990). Thus, I tested the effects of antagonists for these amine receptors on the LTP by intracellular recording.

The incidence of LTP was greatly reduced by bath application of an alpha 1 adrenoceptor antagonist, prazosin, whereas LTP occurred even in the presence of high doses of an H1 receptor antagonist, pyrilamine, or a muscarinic receptor antagonist, atropine, in almost all of the tested cells, as in the control solution (Fig. 9). When LTP occurred in the presence of these antagonists, their magnitude and time course were both similar to those in the control solution (compare Fig. 10A-C with 1B). These results are consistent with the hypothesis that GABAB receptor activation participates in the LTP induction by facilitating alpha 1 adrenoceptor-mediated IP3 formation in postsynaptic cells.

Fig. 9. Incidence of LTP is reduced by the application of prazosin or ketanserin, but not of pyrilamine or atropine. Displayed is the number of cells that showed LTP (filled bars), STP (shaded bars), or no change (open bars) for control and antagonists of different amine receptors. The antagonists were present in the perfusate throughout the recording period. Separate control experiments demonstrated that the application of these antagonists at the concentration used here had no significant effects (p > 0.2) on test IPSPs.
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Fig. 10. Time course of LTP in the presence of amine receptor antagonists. Average time course of LTP for cells that showed LTP in the presence of prazosin (A), pyrilamine (B), atropine (C), and ketanserin (D). Number of cells: A, 7; B, 7; C, 9; D, 8. The magnitude of LTP in the presence of ketanserin, but not of other antagonists, was significantly (p < 0.05) different from that in the control solution.
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Although prazosin reduced LTP incidence, the blockade seemed incomplete, because a 10-fold higher concentration of the antagonist failed to reduce further the incidence (36% at 1 µM; 38% at 10 µM). This observation prompted us to test the involvement of serotonin 5-HT2 (5-HT2A and 5-HT2C) receptors, which also are known to contribute to IP3 formation in developing and mature rat cerebral cortex (Kendall and Nahorski, 1985; Balduini et al., 1991). A 5-HT2 receptor antagonist ketanserin (Leysen et al., 1982) reduced the LTP incidence to 50% at 1 µM and to 40% at 5 µM (Fig. 9). When LTP occurred, in contrast, the magnitude was slightly larger in ketanserin than in the control solution, but their time courses were similar (compare Fig. 10D with 1B). Because further elevation of the concentration decreased the IPSP itself, I did not examine whether the LTP incidence was reduced even more at higher concentrations.

I further studied whether alpha 1 and 5-HT2 receptors are involved in the induction or the maintenance of LTP. LTP was generated only in a few cells when prazosin (10 µM) and ketanserin (5 µM) were applied simultaneously during conditioning stimulation, but it occurred in all of seven tested cells when the same drugs were applied soon after conditioning stimulation (Fig. 11). This indicates that alpha 1 and 5-HT2 receptors participate in the induction, but not the maintenance, of the LTP.

Fig. 11. alpha 1 Adrenoceptors and 5-HT2 receptors are involved in the induction, but not the maintenance, of LTP. A, Conditioning stimulation was applied in the presence of 10 µM prazosin and 5 µM ketanserin. Squares and circles represent responses of conditioned pathway for cells that showed LTP (n = 3) and no LTP (n = 8), respectively. B, The same antagonists were applied soon after conditioning stimulation. The application period is indicated by a bar (Pra, Ket).
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In the experiments above, in which conditioning stimulation was applied with an intensity (5 T) strong enough to consistently produce LTP in the control solution, LTP still occurred in some of the cells in the presence of high doses of prazosin and ketanserin. In contrast, when a weak conditioning stimulation was applied, with an intensity of 1.6-1.8 T, LTP was still evoked in approximately one-half of cells in the control solution, but no LTP was demonstrated in the presence of either prazosin (1 µM) or ketanserin (1 µM; Fig. 12). This suggests that the activation of both alpha 1 and 5-HT2 receptors is required to initiate LTP when a relatively small number of inhibitory presynaptic fibers are activated.

Fig. 12. Blockade of either alpha 1 adrenoceptors or 5-HT2 receptors abolishes LTP evoked by weak conditioning stimulation. Displayed is the number of cells that showed LTP (filled bar), STP (shaded bars), or no change (open bars) in response to weak conditioning stimulation in control, prazosin (1 µM), or ketanserin solution (1 µM).
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DISCUSSION

The main findings of the present study are (1) LTP of GABAA receptor-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission requires the activation of GABAB receptors for the induction, but not of GABAA receptors themselves; (2) a similar blockade of LTP is produced by the inhibition of G-proteins, phospholipase C, IP3 receptors, or Ca2+ increase in postsynaptic cells; and (3) alpha 1 adrenoceptors and 5-HT2 receptors, known to be coupled to IP3 formation, are implicated in the LTP induction. These results suggest that LTP induction requires postsynaptic activities mediated by G-protein-coupled receptors, probably including GABAB and monoamine receptors.

Functional roles of GABAB receptors

The present study demonstrated a new functional role of GABAB receptors. Their well known roles are the reduction of transmitter release caused by the activation of presynaptic receptors and hyperpolarization caused by the activation of postsynaptic receptors (Connors et al., 1988; Dutar and Nicoll, 1988; Deisz and Prince, 1989; Thompson and Gähwiler, 1989; Davies et al., 1990). In addition, these transient effects can either facilitate or depress induction of LTP and long-term depression (LTD) at excitatory synapses by modulating NMDA receptor-mediated responses (Olpe and Karlsson, 1990; Davies et al., 1991; Mott and Lewis, 1991; Wagner and Alger, 1995). In contrast to the indirect involvement of GABAB receptors in plasticity of the excitatory synapses, this study revealed that GABAB receptors are indispensable for the homosynaptic LTP at GABAergic synapses.

Postsynaptic mechanisms for the induction of LTP

LTP was prevented by the inhibition of G-proteins, phospholipase C, IP3 receptors, or Ca2+ increase in postsynaptic cells, indicating that postsynaptic mechanisms participate in the generation of LTP. Because GDPbeta S prevented the induction of LTP in the same way as the GABAB receptor antagonists, it is likely that the activation of GABAB receptors initiates the process in the postsynaptic cells. In addition, some mGluRs could be involved, because they are known to be linked to IP3 formation (Nakanishi, 1992). However, MCPG-sensitive subtypes of mGluRs seem unnecessary for the LTP induction, because the induction was not prevented by high doses of MCPG, which effectively blocks mGluR-mediated Ca2+ increase in rat visual cortex (Haruta et al., 1994). If the mGluRs are involved in the plasticity at the inhibitory synapses, they can contribute to LTD, because their activation is known to produce LTD at hippocampal inhibitory synapses (Liu et al., 1993).

Other receptors possibly involved in the LTP induction are amine receptors, linked to IP3 formation (Nahorski, 1988). The present study demonstrated involvement of alpha 1 adrenoceptors in the LTP induction. These receptors are known to be present in visual cortical layer V (Sargent Jones et al., 1985; Parkinson et al., 1988) and believed to be located entirely postsynaptically (Nicoll et al., 1990). In addition, it is known that GABAB receptor activation alone does not affect the IP3 level, but it facilitates alpha 1 adrenoceptor-mediated IP3 formation in rat cerebral cortex (Crawford and Young, 1990). These results strongly suggest that activation of postsynaptic GABAB receptors initiates the LTP by potentiating alpha 1 receptor-mediated IP3 formation.

In addition, 5-HT2 (5-HT2A/5-HT2C) receptors, located in all visual cortical layers (Pazos and Palacios, 1985; Pazos et al., 1985; Dyck and Cynader, 1993), also participated in the LTP induction, suggesting that GABAB receptors can also facilitate 5-HT2 receptor-mediated IP3 formation. On the contrary, it is reported that GABAB receptor agonists depress the 5-HT2 receptor-mediated inositol phosphate formation in mouse cerebral cortex (Godfrey et al., 1988), although no studies on this have been performed on rats. Thus, 5-HT2 receptors could contribute to LTP induction either presynaptically or postsynaptically independent of the action of GABAB receptors. However, the effect of GABA on inositol phosphate formation seems to vary considerably in different species (Godfrey et al., 1988; Crawford and Young, 1990). Furthermore, the inositol phosphate formation was measured by using adult cerebral cortex without area or layer specifications. Therefore, the relationship between the activation of GABAB and 5-HT2 receptors is uncertain at present.

Even simultaneous application of high doses of prazosin and ketanserin failed to block LTP in some of the cells, whereas the inhibition of IP3-induced Ca2+ release in postsynaptic cells completely abolished the generation of LTP. This might be attributable to an insufficient dose of ketanserin, because the dose was limited to a range producing no depressive effect on IPSP itself. Alternatively, some other receptors for neuropeptides, coreleased with GABA (Jones and Hendry, 1986) and linked to IP3 formation (Nahorski, 1988), could be involved in the LTP induction. Furthermore, the possibility remains that GABAB receptor activation alone could form IP3 in developing visual cortex. To fully understand the mechanisms of the LTP, more knowledge is required on the relationship between GABAB receptors and IP3 formation and the elucidation of processes activated by IP3-induced Ca2+ release is also important.

Comparison with LTP at hippocampal CA1 excitatory synapses

LTP at visual cortical inhibitory synapses has similar properties to those at CA1 pyramidal cell excitatory synapses (Komatsu, 1994). Both are input-specific and associative. Despite this similarity, their induction mechanism is considerably different, as demonstrated in this study. LTP induction at excitatory synapses of hippocampal CA1 requires the activation of voltage-dependent and Ca2+-permeable NMDA receptor channels or voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in postsynaptic cells (Collingridge et al., 1983; Lynch et al., 1983; Mayer et al., 1984; Nowak et al., 1984; MacDermott et al., 1986; Grover and Teyler, 1990; Aniksztejn and Ben-Ari, 1991). In addition, it has been reported that mGluRs also participate in LTP (Bashir et al., 1993; Aiba et al., 1994), although the issue is controversial (Chinestra et al., 1993; Conquet et al., 1994; Manzoni et al., 1994; Selig et al., 1995). Because the occlusion of postsynaptic G-proteins by GTPgamma S does not prevent the induction of LTP (Goh and Pennefather, 1989), postsynaptic mGluRs may not be involved in LTP induction, although the receptor contributes to the LTP. In contrast, the LTP shown in this study required the activation of G-protein-coupled receptors, but not voltage-gated channels, in postsynaptic cells.

Both the application of the GABAB receptor antagonist and postsynaptic loading of GDPbeta S reduced the incidence, but not the magnitude, of LTP. In addition, our previous study demonstrated that intense conditioning stimulation elicited LTP more frequently, although the magnitude of LTP did not depend on the intensity (Komatsu, 1994), suggesting that the associativity of LTP is attributable to the presence of a threshold level at some of the steps after the activation of G-protein-coupled receptors in postsynaptic cells. Once this threshold is exceeded, LTP seems to be generated with a similar magnitude. Therefore, in associative LTPs, coactivation of presynaptic fibers could be assessed by postsynaptic responses mediated by either voltage-dependent channels or G-protein-coupled receptors.

In hippocampal CA1, both LTP and LTD of excitatory synaptic transmission require a postsynaptic Ca2+ increase because of NMDA receptor activation. It is proposed that the level of Ca2+ transients determines the direction of the modification (Lisman, 1985; Malenka and Nicoll, 1993). At inhibitory synapses, in contrast, LTP requires Ca2+ release from internal stores, whereas LTD requires Ca2+ influx through NMDA receptor channels (Komatsu and Iwakiri, 1993), suggesting that the source of Ca2+ is critical for determining the direction.

Relevance of LTP at inhibitory synapses to plasticity of visual responses

Selective responsiveness of visual cortical cells develops under the influence of visual experience in rats, as it does in cats (Benevento et al., 1992; Maffei et al., 1992). LTP of inhibitory synaptic transmission in visual cortex is induced most easily in developing rats (Komatsu, 1994), and GABAB binding levels peak during postnatal development and decline to the adult level in rat neocortex (Turgeon and Albin, 1994). Therefore, it is tempting to study the consequence of a blockade of GABAB receptors on the development of response selectivity in visual cortical cells.

Noradrenaline contributes to the ocular dominance plasticity of cortical cells through beta  receptors and serotonin through 5-HT1 and 5-HT2 receptors (Shirokawa and Kasamatsu, 1986; Gu and Singer, 1995). This plasticity may be ascribed primarily to changes at excitatory synapses (Hubel et al., 1977; Shatz and Stryker, 1978). Because LTP at inhibitory synapses may contribute to plasticity of orientation and direction selectivity rather than the ocular dominance preference, it is likely that the monoamines participate in either of these kinds of plasticity via different subsets of receptors.

When weak conditioning stimulation was applied, a blockade of either alpha 1 adrenoceptor or 5-HT2 receptor completely prevented the induction of LTP. Visual inputs far more frequently may produce inhibitory synaptic activities similar to those evoked by weak rather than by strong conditioning stimulation, suggesting that the LTP usually can be induced when the inhibitory synapses are activated in conjunction with simultaneous activities of adrenergic and serotonergic cells. Because locus ceruleus and raphe cells maintain high-frequency spike activities during awake, but not sleep, states (McGinty and Harper, 1976; Sakai and Jouvet, 1980; Cespuglio et al., 1981), it is likely that potentiation at inhibitory synapses effectively occurs when animals are looking attentively at their visual environment.

FOOTNOTES

Received March 28, 1996; revised July 22, 1996; accepted July 24, 1996.

  

This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 06260235, 07680898, and 07279104 from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture. I thank Dr. T. Kurotani for his comments on this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Y. Komatsu, Division of Higher Nervous Control, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01, Japan.


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