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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 11, 2008, 28(24):6272-6280; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1656-08.2008

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Neurobiology of Disease
Chronic Fluoxetine Bidirectionally Modulates Potentiating Effects of Serotonin on the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synaptic Transmission

Katsunori Kobayashi, Yumiko Ikeda, Eisuke Haneda, and Hidenori Suzuki

Department of Pharmacology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan

Correspondence should be addressed to Katsunori Kobayashi, Department of Pharmacology, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan. Email: kkatsu-tky{at}umin.ac.jp

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been used to treat various psychiatric disorders. Although the cellular mechanisms underlying amelioration of particular symptoms are mostly unknown, recent studies have shown critical importance of the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in behavioral effects of SSRIs in rodents. Here, we show that serotonin potentiates synaptic transmission between mossy fibers, the sole output of the dentate granule cells, and CA3 pyramidal cells in mouse hippocampal slices. This potentiation is mediated by activation of 5-HT₄ receptors and intracellular cAMP elevation. A chronic treatment of mice with fluoxetine, a widely used SSRI, bidirectionally modulates the 5-HT-induced potentiation: Fluoxetine enhances the potentiation induced by lower concentrations of serotonin, while attenuates that by the higher concentration, which represents stabilization of synaptic 5-HT action. In contrast to the chronic treatment, an acute application of fluoxetine in slices induces a leftward shift in the dose–response curve of the 5-HT-induced potentiation. Thus, acute and chronic fluoxetine treatments have distinct effects on the serotonergic modulation of the mossy fiber synaptic transmission. Exposure of mice to novel environments induces increases in locomotor activity and hippocampal extracellular 5-HT levels. In mice chronically treated with fluoxetine, the novelty-induced hyperactivity is reduced without significant alterations in home cage activity and motor skills. Our results suggest that the chronic fluoxetine treatment can stabilize the serotonergic modulation of the central synaptic transmission, which may contribute to attenuation of hyperactive behaviors.

Key words: hippocampus; mossy fiber; synaptic transmission; serotonin; SSRI; psychiatric disorder

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Received Jan. 12, 2008; accepted May 12, 2008.

Correspondence should be addressed to Katsunori Kobayashi, Department of Pharmacology, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan. Email: kkatsu-tky{at}umin.ac.jp

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