Prevention of plasticity of endocannabinoid signaling inhibits persistent limbic hyperexcitability caused by developmental seizures.

Autor: Chen K; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA., Neu A, Howard AL, Földy C, Echegoyen J, Hilgenberg L, Smith M, Mackie K, Soltesz I
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience [J Neurosci] 2007 Jan 03; Vol. 27 (1), pp. 46-58.
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3966-06.2007
Abstrakt: Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition (DSI) is an endocannabinoid-mediated short-term plasticity mechanism that couples postsynaptic Ca2+ rises to decreased presynaptic GABA release. Whether the gain of this retrograde synaptic mechanism is subject to long-term modulation by glutamatergic excitatory inputs is not known. Here, we demonstrate that activity-dependent long-term DSI potentiation takes place in hippocampal slices after tetanic stimulation of Schaffer collateral synapses. This activity-dependent, long-term plasticity of endocannabinoid signaling was specific to GABAergic synapses, as it occurred without increases in the depolarization-induced suppression of excitation. Induction of tetanus-induced DSI potentiation in vitro required a complex pathway involving AMPA/kainate and metabotropic glutamate receptor as well as CB1 receptor activation. Because DSI potentiation has been suggested to play a role in persistent limbic hyperexcitability after prolonged seizures in the developing brain, we used these mechanistic insights into activity-dependent DSI potentiation to test whether interference with the induction of DSI potentiation prevents seizure-induced long-term hyperexcitability. The results showed that the in vitro, tetanus-induced DSI potentiation was occluded by previous in vivo fever-induced (febrile) seizures, indicating a common pathway. Accordingly, application of CB1 receptor antagonists during febrile seizures in vivo blocked the seizure-induced persistent DSI potentiation, abolished the seizure-induced upregulation of CB1 receptors, and prevented the emergence of long-term limbic hyperexcitability. These results reveal a new form of activity-dependent, long-term plasticity of endocannabinoid signaling at perisomatic GABAergic synapses, and demonstrate that blocking the induction of this plasticity abolishes the long-term effects of prolonged febrile seizures in the developing brain.
Databáze: MEDLINE