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Volume 17, Number 22, Issue of November 15, 1997 pp. 8828-8841
The Olivocerebellar Projection Mediates Ibogaine-Induced Degeneration of Purkinje Cells: A Model of Indirect, Trans-Synaptic Excitotoxicity
Received April 30, 1997; revised Sept. 3, 1997; accepted Sept. 8, 1997.
Elizabeth O'Hearn and Mark E. Molliver Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
Ibogaine, an indole alkaloid that causes hallucinations, tremor, and ataxia, produces cerebellar neurotoxicity in rats, manifested by degeneration of Purkinje cells aligned in narrow parasagittal bands that are coextensive with activated glial cells. Harmaline, a closely related alkaloid that excites inferior olivary neurons, causes the same pattern of Purkinje cell degeneration, providing a clue to the mechanism of toxicity. We have proposed that ibogaine, like harmaline, excites neurons in the inferior olive, leading to sustained release of glutamate at climbing fiber synapses on Purkinje cells. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that increased climbing fiber activity induced by ibogaine mediates excitotoxic Purkinje cell degeneration. The inferior olive was pharmacologically ablated in rats by a neurotoxic drug regimen using 3-acetylpyridine, and cerebellar damage attributed to subsequent administration of ibogaine was analyzed using immunocytochemical markers for neurons and glial cells. The results show that ibogaine administered after inferior olive ablation produced little or no Purkinje cell degeneration or glial activation. That a lesion of the inferior olive almost completely prevents the neurotoxicity demonstrates that ibogaine is not directly toxic to Purkinje cells, but that the toxicity is indirect and dependent on integrity of the olivocerebellar projection. We postulate that ibogaine-induced activation of inferior olivary neurons leads to release of glutamate simultaneously at hundreds of climbing fiber terminals distributed widely over the surface of each Purkinje cell. The unique circuitry of the olivocerebellar projection provides this system with maximum synaptic security, a feature that confers on Purkinje cells a high degree of vulnerability to excitotoxic injury.
Key words: ibogaine; harmaline; Purkinje cell; cerebellum; excitotoxicity; climbing fiber; inferior olivary nucleus; microglia
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