Postsynaptic current mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors in cerebellar Purkinje cells.

In rat cerebellar slices, repetitive parallel fiber stimulation evokes an inward, postsynaptic current in Purkinje cells with a fast component mediated by alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)/kainate receptors and a slower component mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR). The mGluR-mediated excitatory postsynaptic current (mGluR-EPSC) is evoked selectively by parallel fiber stimulation; climbing fiber stimulation is ineffective. The mGluR-EPSC is elicited most effectively with increasing frequencies of parallel fiber stimulation, from a threshold of 10 Hz to a maximum response at approximately 100 Hz. The amplitude of the mGluR-EPSC is a linear function of the number of stimulus pulses without any apparent saturation, even with >10 pulses. Thus mGluRs at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse can function as linear detectors of the number of spikes in a burst of activity in parallel fibers. The mGluR-EPSC is present from postnatal day 15 and persists into adulthood. It is inhibited by the generic mGluR antagonist (RS)-a-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine and by the group I mGluR antagonist (RS)-1-aminoindan-1,5-dicarboxylic acid at a concentration selective for mGluR1. Although the intracellular transduction pathway involves a G protein, the putative mediators of mGluR1 (phospholipase C and protein kinase C) are not directly involved, indicating that the mGluR-EPSC studied here is mediated by a different and still unidentified second-messenger pathway. Heparin, a nonselective antagonist of inositol-trisphosphate (IP3) receptors, has no significant effect on the mGluR-EPSC, suggesting that also IP3 might be not required for the response. Buffering intracellular Ca2+ with a high concentration of bis-(o-aminophenoxy)-N,N,N', N'-tetraacetic acid partially inhibits the mGluR-EPSC, indicating that Ca2+ is not directly responsible for the response but that resting Ca2+ levels exert a tonic potentiating effect on the mGluR-EPSC.

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