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Yoshifumi Ueta
Department School of Medicine, School of Medicine Position Assistant Professor |
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| Article types | Original article |
| Language | English |
| Peer review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | A serotonergic discrimination favoring synaptic inputs that accompany robust spike firing in lateral amygdala neurons. |
| Journal | Formal name：Neuroscience Abbreviation：Neuroscience ISSN code：1873-7544(Electronic)0306-4522(Linking) |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 220,pp.119-130 |
| Author and coauthor | Yamamoto Ryo†, Ueta Yoshifumi, Sugai Tokio, Kato Nobuo* |
| Authorship | 2nd author |
| Publication date | 2012/09 |
| Summary | The amygdala and serotonergic innervations thereunto are considered to cooperatively modulate affective behaviors. By whole-cell recording, the present study examined effects of serotonin (5-HT) on synaptic transmission in the rat basolateral amygdala (BLA) complex, which is the amygdalar entrance for sensory information. Application of 5-HT-attenuated excitatory postsynaptic currents at synapses from the lateral amygdala (LA) to the BLA proper, and also at synapses from putative thalamic afferents to LA principal neurons, both depending on 5-HT(2) receptors. This reduction of synaptic responses was confirmed in the BLA under current clamp. In the LA, by contrast, synaptic potentials were not reduced, but enhanced by 5-HT. With 5-HT bath-applied, a prolonged depolarization was induced in LA neurons by strong synaptic stimulation, which appears similar to a slow after-depolarization (sADP) induced by injecting depolarizing currents. Occurrence of such current-induced sADP was confirmed in LA neurons. Both the synaptically-activated prolonged depolarization and the current-induced sADPs depended on 5-HT(2) receptor activation and postsynaptic calcium increase, suggesting that the same postsynaptic intrinsic mechanisms are involved. Reduction of potassium currents was identified as a major ionic mechanism for this sADPs. We thus revealed that 5-HT usually reduces overall synaptic transmission in the whole BLA complex, but enables sADPs to occur, thereby increasing synaptic responsiveness of LA neurons in a positive feedback manner. With this duality of 5-HT actions in operation, a weak input to the BLA complex would be usually eliminated, but could be selected were it associated with sufficiently large depolarization. |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.06.008 |
| Document No. | 22698688 |
| PMID | 22698688 |