title: Serotonin blocks the long-term potentiation induced by primed burst stimulation in the CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices.
abstract: The effect of 5-hydroxytryptamine on the induction of long-term potentiation by a train of high frequency pulses (100 Hz; 1 s) or by a stimulation consisting of one burst of five pulses at 100 Hz delivered 170 ms after a single pulse (primed burst) was investigated in the CA1 region of the rat hippocampal slice in vitro with extracellular recordings. Superfusion with 5-hydroxytryptamine (3-30 microM) produced a concentration-dependent decrease in amplitude of the population spikes evoked by test stimuli. The presence of 5-hydroxytryptamine (30 microM) did not affect the magnitude of long-term potentiation produced by the high-frequency stimulation but it prevented the long-term potentiation induced by a primed burst. The action of 5-hydroxytryptamine was mimicked by the 5-hydroxytryptamine1A agonist 5-carboxamidotryptamine (0.3 microM) and blocked by the 5-hydroxytryptamine2/5-hydroxytryptamine1A antagonist spiperone (3 microM) or by the 5-hydroxytryptamine1/5-hydroxytryptamine2 antagonist methiothepin (1-10 microM). The selective 5-hydroxytryptamine2 antagonist ritanserin (1 microM) did not antagonize the block of long-term potentiation produced by 5-hydroxytryptamine. The selective 5-hydroxytryptamine3 antagonists (3-tropanyl)-1H-indole-3-carboxylic acid ester (ICS 205-930; 1 nM) and ondansetron (GR-38032; 30 nM) did not affect the reduction in the population spike produced by application of 5-hydroxytryptamine. In contrast, a primed burst delivered at the fifth minute of 5-hydroxytryptamine application in the presence of a 5-hydroxytryptamine3 antagonist induced a long-term potentiation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Farmacologia Preclinica e Clinica, Università di Firenze, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Corradetti
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ballerini
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pugliese
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pepeu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D012701:Serotonin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D011985:Receptors, Serotonin; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists; D012701:Serotonin; C047087:5-carboxamidotryptamine