Effect of cannabinoids on glycine-activated currents in pyramidal neurons of the rat hippocampus |
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Authors: | N. M. Yatsenko N. A. Lozovaya |
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Affiliation: | (1) Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
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Abstract: | Using electrophysiological techniques (a patch-clamp technique in the whole-cell configuration and intracellular perfusion of neurons), we studied the effect of cannabinoids on the characteristics of glycine-activated currents in freshly isolated pyramidal neurons of the rat hippocampus. We found that endocannabinoids (anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol), as well as a synthetic cannabinoid, WIN 55,212-2, when applied in physiological concentrations, decreased the amplitude of glycine-activated currents. The agents under study accelerated the kinetics of activation and desensitization of glycine-induced Cl− currents. The characteristics of the currents recovered after washout from cannabinoids. Changes in the kinetics of desensitization of glycine-activated currents depended noticeably on the holding potential; at positive potentials the sensitivity to cannabinoids was higher. These effects of cannabinoids were also observed in the presence of antagonists of CB1/CB3 receptors and an inhibitor of G proteins, GDPβS. These data indicate that under our experimental conditions cannabinoids exerted direct effects on glycine receptors. Neirofiziologiya/Neurophysiology, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 15–21, January–February, 2007. |
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Keywords: | glycine receptors cannabinoids pyramidal neurons hippocampus |
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