title: Medial amygdala stimulation produces a long-lasting excitatory postsynaptic potential/spike dissociation in the dentate gyrus in vivo.
abstract: We have previously found that high-frequency stimulation of the medial amygdala (MeA) induces long-term potentiation (LTP) of the population spike in the perforant path-dentate granule cell synapses of anesthetized rats. In the present study, we investigated the influence of MeA stimulation on the relationship between the population excitatory postsynaptic potential (pEPSP) and population spike in the dentate gyrus. High-frequency stimulation of the MeA produced a leftward shift of the E-S curve, in which population spike amplitude was plotted against pEPSP slope at various stimulus intensities. MeA-induced population spike LTP was also observed under blockade of GABAergic inhibition with picrotoxin. These results suggests that MeA stimulation leads to a long-lasting change in the internal firing characteristics of the dentate granule cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D000679:Amygdala / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D018891:Dentate Gyrus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D019706:Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D018756:GABA Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010852:Picrotoxin / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D018756:GABA Antagonists; D010852:Picrotoxin