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In experiments performed on rat transversial slices of the rat dorsal hippocampus, we found that high-frequency tetanic stimulation of the mossy fibers (MF) and short-term action of 1 μM kainic acid on the slices resulted in long-term potentiation of the population spikes evoked inCA3 pyramidal neurons by single stimuli applied to the MF. The tetanus-and kainate-induced potentiations of synaptic transmission were accompanied by a decrease in the degree of paired facilitation at a 50-msec-long interstimulus interval; they were additive, prevented by 10 μM CNQX, a competitive antagonist of AMPA/kainate receptors, and insensitive to 100 μM ketamine, a noncompetitive antagonist of NMDA-glutamate receptors. Both types of potentiation were enhanced by 10 μM (1S, 3R)-ACPD, an agonist of metabotropic glutamate receptors, as well as by 1 μM pyracetam or 50 μM dichlothiazide, substances weakening AMPA/kainate receptor desensitization. The effects produced by high-frequency tetanic stimulation of the MF and by kainic acid were prevented by 50 μM polymixin B, a protein kinase C blocker, and weakened by 10 μM trifluoroperazine, a calmodulin inhibitor, or 1 μM pirenzepine, an M1 acetylcholine receptor blocking agent. In total, the above data suggest that the tetanus- and kainate-induced potentiations of transmission in the synapses formed by the MF and dendrites ofCA3 pyramidal neurons are due to the combined activation of pre-synaptic high-affinity kainate-preferring receptors, located in the membranes of the MF varicosities, and post-synaptic phosphoinositide metabolism-coupled metabotropic glutamate receptors and 1 and M1 acetylcholine receptors. This activation results in a significant increase in the activity of epsilon-form protein kinase C, phosphorylation of protein substrates involved in vesicular glutamate release from the MF varicosities, and long-term enhancement of presynaptic glutamate release.
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Abramets, I.I., Kuznetsov, Y.V., Samoilovich, I.M. et al. Neurochemical mechanisms underlying NMDA-independent long-term post-tetanic potentiation of synaptic transmission. Neurophysiology 31, 227–232 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02515094
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