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. 1995 Aug;115(8):1469–1474. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb16639.x

A comparison of the effects of selective metabotropic glutamate receptor agonists on synaptically evoked whole cell currents of rat spinal ventral horn neurones in vitro.

C Q Cao 1, R H Evans 1, P M Headley 1, P M Udvarhelyi 1
PMCID: PMC1908875  PMID: 8564207

Abstract

1. Whole cell synaptic currents were recorded under voltage clamp from a total of 54 ventral horn neurones held near to their resting potential by the patch clamp technique in immature rat spinal cord preparations in vitro. Twenty eight neurones were identified, by antidromic invasion from ventral roots, as motoneurones. Excitatory postsynaptic currents (e.p.s.cs) of peak amplitude -480 pA +/- 66 s.e. mean and -829 +/- 124 pA were evoked respectively from the unidentified ventral horn neurones and the motoneurones in response to maximal activation of the segmental dorsal root. 2. The e.p.s.cs were depressed reversibly by the metabotropic glutamate agonists 1S3S-1-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylate (1S3S-ACPD) (EC50 17.1 microM +/- 0.3 s.e. mean, n = 14) and L-2-amino-4-phosphonobutanoate (L-AP4) (EC50 = 2.19 +/- 0.19 microM, n = 15). Since both agonists independently produced more than 90% depression it is likely that the receptors that mediate their effects are present on the same presynaptic terminals. 3. When the Mg2+ concentration was raised from 0.75 mM to 2.75 mM together with the addition of 50 microM D-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate (AP5), a treatment which would increase the proportion of monosynaptic component in the e.p.s.c. the concentration-effect plots for both 1S3S-ACPD (EC50 1.95 +/- 0.4 microM, n = 8) and L-AP4 (EC50 0.55 +/- 0.20 microM, n = 7) were shifted to the left, suggesting that monosynaptic e.p.cs of primary afferents to ventral horn neurones are more susceptible to L-AP4 and 1S3S-ACPD than are other synapses in polysynaptic pathways.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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