RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Distinct presynaptic regulation of dopamine release through NMDA receptors in striosome- and matrix-enriched areas of the rat striatum
JF The Journal of Neuroscience
JO J. Neurosci.
FD Society for Neuroscience
SP 1256
OP 1262
DO 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.11-05-01256.1991
VO 11
IS 5
A1 MO Krebs
A1 F Trovero
A1 M Desban
A1 C Gauchy
A1 J Glowinski
A1 ML Kemel
YR 1991
UL http://www.jneurosci.org/content/11/5/1256.abstract
AB Striosome- and matrix-enriched striatal zones were defined in coronal and sagittal brain sections of the rat, on the basis of 3H-naloxone binding to mu-opiate receptors (a striosome-specific marker). Then, using a new in vitro microsuperfusion device, the NMDA (50 microM)- evoked release of newly synthesized 3H-dopamine (3H-DA) was examined in these four striatal areas under Mg(2+)-free conditions. The amplitudes of the responses were different in striosomal (171 +/- 6% and 161 +/- 5% of the spontaneous release) than in matrix areas (223 +/- 6% and 248 +/- 12%), even when glycine (1 or 100 microM) was coapplied (in the presence of 1 microM strychnine). In the four areas, the NMDA-evoked release of 3H-DA was blocked completely by Mg2+ (1 mM) or (+)-5-methyl- 10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo(a,d)cyclohepten-5,10-imine maleate (MK-801; 1 microM) and almost totally abolished by kynurenate (100 microM). Because the tetrodotoxin (TTX)-resistant NMDA-evoked release of 3H-DA was similar in striosome- (148 +/- 5% and 152 +/- 6%) or matrix- enriched (161 +/- 5% and 156 +/- 7%) areas, the indirect (TTX- sensitive) component of NMDA-evoked responses, which involves striatal neurons and/or afferent fibers, seems more important in the matrix- than in the striosome-enriched areas. The modulation of DA release by cortical glutamate and/or aspartate-containing inputs through NMDA receptors in the matrix appears thus to be partly distinct from that observed in the striosomes, providing some functional basis for the histochemical striatal heterogeneity.