PUBLICATION
Voltage dependence of conductance changes evoked by glycine release in the zebrafish brain
- Authors
- Legendre, P. and Korn, H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-961014-691
- Date
- 1995
- Source
- Journal of neurophysiology 73: 2404-2412 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Korn, Henri, Legendre, Pascal
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Evoked Potentials/drug effects
- Glycine/pharmacology*
- Medulla Oblongata/drug effects*
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Membrane Potentials/physiology*
- Neural Inhibition/drug effects*
- Neural Inhibition/physiology
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Presynaptic Terminals/physiology
- Tetrodotoxin/pharmacology
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 7666148 Full text @ J. Neurophysiol.
Citation
Legendre, P. and Korn, H. (1995) Voltage dependence of conductance changes evoked by glycine release in the zebrafish brain. Journal of neurophysiology. 73:2404-2412.
Abstract
1. The kinetics and mechanisms underlying the voltage dependence of inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) recorded in the Mauthner cell (M cell) were investigated in the isolated medulla of 52-h-old zebrafish larvae, with the use of whole cell and outside-out patch-clamp recordings. 2. Spontaneous miniature IPSCs (mIPSCs) were recorded in the presence of 10(-6) M tetrodotoxin (TTX), 10 mM MgCl2, and 0.1 mM [CaCl2]o. Depolarizing the cell from -50 to +50 mV did not evoke any significant change in the distribution of mIPSC amplitudes, whereas synaptic currents were prolonged at positive voltages. The average decay time constant was increased twofold at +50 mV. 3. The voltage dependence of the kinetics of glycine-activated channels was first investigated during whole cell recording experiments. Currents evoked by voltage steps in the presence of glycine (50 microM) were compared with those obtained without glycine. The increase in chloride conductance (gCl-) evoked by glycine was time and voltage dependent. Inactivation and reactivation of the chloride current were observed during voltage pulses from 0 to -50 mV and from -50 to 0 mV, respectively, and they occurred with similar time constants (2-3 s). During glycine application, voltage-ramp analysis revealed a shift in the reversal potential (ECl-) occurring at all [Cl-]i tested. 4. The basis of the voltage sensitivity of glycine-evoked gCl- was first analyzed by measuring the relative changes in the total open probability (NPo) of glycine-activated channels with voltage.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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