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Differential surface density and modulatory effects of presynaptic GABA_B receptors in hippocampal cholecystokinin and parvalbumin basket cells

Authors: Sam A. Booker, Daniel Althof, Claudius E. Degro, Masahiko Watanabe, Ákos Kulik, Imre Vida

Published in: Brain Structure and Function | Issue 8/2017

Abstract

The perisomatic domain of cortical neurons is under the control of two major GABAergic inhibitory interneuron types: regular-spiking cholecystokinin (CCK) basket cells (BCs) and fast-spiking parvalbumin (PV) BCs. CCK and PV BCs are different not only in their intrinsic physiological, anatomical and molecular characteristics, but also in their presynaptic modulation of their synaptic output. Most GABAergic terminals are known to contain GABA_B receptors (GABA_BR), but their role in presynaptic inhibition and surface expression have not been comparatively characterized in the two BC types. To address this, we performed whole-cell recordings from CCK and PV BCs and postsynaptic pyramidal cells (PCs), as well as freeze-fracture replica-based quantitative immunogold electron microscopy of their synapses in the rat hippocampal CA1 area. Our results demonstrate that while both CCK and PV BCs contain functional presynaptic GABA_BRs, their modulatory effects and relative abundance are markedly different at these two synapses: GABA release is dramatically inhibited by the agonist baclofen at CCK BC synapses, whereas a moderate reduction in inhibitory transmission is observed at PV BC synapses. Furthermore, GABA_BR activation has divergent effects on synaptic dynamics: paired-pulse depression (PPD) is enhanced at CCK BC synapses, but abolished at PV BC synapses. Consistent with the quantitative differences in presynaptic inhibition, virtually all CCK BC terminals were found to contain GABA_BRs at high densities, but only 40% of PV BC axon terminals contain GABA_BRs at detectable levels. These findings add to an increasing list of differences between these two interneuron types, with implications for their network functions.

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Title: Differential surface density and modulatory effects of presynaptic GABAB receptors in hippocampal cholecystokinin and parvalbumin basket cells
Authors: Sam A. Booker
Daniel Althof
Claudius E. Degro
Masahiko Watanabe
Ákos Kulik
Imre Vida
Publication date: 01-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Brain Structure and Function / Issue 8/2017
Print ISSN: 1863-2653
Electronic ISSN: 1863-2661
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1427-x

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