title: The regional vulnerability to blockade of action potentials in organotypic hippocampal culture.
abstract: We investigated how blockade of spontaneous action potentials influenced the synaptogenesis by measuring the field population spike using hippocampal organotypic cultures. Although respective blockade of inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmission by picrotoxin and CNQX did not significantly induce cell death in all hippocampal area, sodium channel blocking drugs (tetrodotoxin or lidocaine) caused specific and severe damage and affected the formation of functional synapse in CA1 and the entorhinal cortex but not in CA3. It is suggested that the spontaneous action potentials would play a critical role during synaptogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakagami
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsuki
mesh_terms: D018750:6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione / Q000494:pharmacology; D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000494:pharmacology; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D010852:Picrotoxin / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D026941:Sodium Channel Blockers; D013569:Synapses / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D013779:Tetrodotoxin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D018750:6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione; D008012:Lidocaine; D010852:Picrotoxin; D026941:Sodium Channel Blockers; D013779:Tetrodotoxin