Antibodies to glutamate, aspartate and glycyl-D-aspartate reversibly suppress stimulus-evoked, extracellularly recorded responses in slices of rat neocortex.
Polyclonal antibodies raised against glutamate, aspartate and the dipeptide, glycyl-D-aspartate were dissolved in artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) and administered at concentrations as low as 0.05% to slices of prefrontal cortex maintained in vitro. These antisera caused a reversible attenuation of evoked field potentials and/or single-unit activity recorded extracellularly following the delivery of shocks to the underlying white matter, or to cortical layer IV. To the best of our knowledge, this result provides the first demonstration using electrophysiological recording of the use of a transmitter-specific antibody as a blocker of synaptic transmission in living slices of the central nervous system (CNS). The results lend support to the suggestion that glutamate, aspartate, and a molecule related closely to glycyl-D-aspartate, are involved in synaptic transmission at major pathways within prefrontal cortex.
Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 27412-5001, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000494:pharmacology; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
D000906:Antibodies; D001224:Aspartic Acid; D018698:Glutamic Acid