Developmental regulation of nicotinic synapses on cochlear inner hair cells
| Autor: | Katz, E., Elgoyhen, A.B., Gómez-Casati, M.E., Knipper, M., Vetter, D.E., Fuchs, P.A., Glowatzki, E. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Patch-Clamp Techniques
Small-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels Mammalian cochlea cochlea Action Potentials Neonatal development animal cell Receptors Nicotinic Synaptic Transmission Rats Sprague-Dawley Potassium Channels Calcium-Activated depolarization Alpha9 gene Hearing newborn synapse calcium transport rat Cholinergic synaptogenesis calcium activated potassium channel auditory stimulation messenger RNA receptor potential potassium article Age Factors Gene Expression Regulation Developmental α9α10 nAChR unclassified drug postnatal development priority journal nicotinic receptor alpha10 subunit Ca2+-activated K+ channel signal transduction Efferent innervation hair cell animal tissue knockout gene sensory nerve Alpha10 gene Animals Hair Cells Inner gene protein expression calcium nonhuman Corti organ efferent nerve ion current Acetylcholine Rats Protein Subunits nicotinic receptor alpha9 subunit Transient synapse in situ hybridization receptor subunit nicotinic receptor sk2 gene IHC nicotine |
| Zdroj: | J. Neurosci. 2004;24(36):7814-7820 Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN) Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales instacron:UBA-FCEN |
| Popis: | In the mature cochlea, inner hair cells (IHCs) transduce acoustic signals into receptor potentials, communicating to the brain by synaptic contacts with afferent fibers. Before the onset of hearing, a transient efferent innervation is found on IHCs, mediated by a nicotinic cholinergic receptor that may contain both α9 and α10 subunits. Calcium influx through that receptor activates calcium-dependent (SK2-containing) potassium channels. This inhibitory synapse is thought to disappear after the onset of hearing [after postnatal day 12 (P12)]. We documented this developmental transition using whole-cell recordings from IHCs in apical turns of the rat organ of Corti. Acetylcholine elicited ionic currents in 88-100% of IHCs between P3 and P14, but in only 1 of 11 IHCs at P16-P22. Potassium depolarization of efferent terminals caused IPSCs in 67% of IHCs at P3, in 100% at P7-P9, in 93% at P10-P12, but in only 40% at P13-P14 and in none of the IHCs tested between P16 and P22. Earlier work had shown by in situ hybridization that α9 mRNA is expressed in adult IHCs but that α10 mRNA disappears after the onset of hearing. In the present study, antibodies to α10 and to the associated calcium-dependent (SK2) potassium channel showed a similar developmental loss. The correlated expression of these gene products with functional innervation suggests that Alpha10 and SK2, but not Alpha9, are regulated by synaptic activity. Furthermore, this developmental knock-out of α10, but not α9, supports the hypothesis that functional nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in hair cells are heteromers containing both these subunits. Fil:Katz, E. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Gómez-Casati, M.E. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. |
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