Quisqualate, kainate and NMDA can initiate spreading depression in the turtle cerebellum

This study evaluated the role of excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptor activation in spreading depression (SD), using the in vitro turtle cerebellum as a model system. SD was triggered by electrical stimulation or by elevated K+ after the cerebellum had been conditioned for at least 30 min with physiological saline in which most of the chloride had been replaced by propionate. SD was recognized as a transient (1-3 min) negative shift of extracellular potential accompanied by depression of evoked potentials (15-30 min) and an increase of extracellular K+ up to 60 mM, which spread across the cerebellum at rates of 1-7 mm/min. SD usually commenced in the granular layer, which apparently contains the 3 major EAA receptor subtypes, quisqualate, kainate and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), then subsequently spread to the molecular layer, which is largely free of NMDA receptors. Glutamate, aspartate, NMDA, kainate and quisqualate all triggered SD. Kynurenic acid and 2-aminophosphonovaleric acid (APV) inhibited SD under certain conditions further suggesting involvement of EAA receptors. The initiation of SD was blocked by high Mg2+ and facilitated in low extracellular Mg2+, which also eliminated the delay in molecular layer SD onset. Our data suggest that no one EAA receptor subtype is singly responsible for SD.

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