title: LTP in CA1 of the adult rat hippocampus and voltage-activated calcium channels.
abstract: It is difficult to induce long-term potentiation (LTP) in CA1 of hippocampal slices from 120-day-old rats when a single 100 Hz, 1 s tetanus is administered in extracellular solution containing 2.0 mM calcium and 2.0 mM magnesium. However, in the presence of 2.5 mM calcium and 1.3 mM magnesium LTP is reliably induced by this same stimulus. Although the amplitude of LTP is similar to that observed in slices from 30-day-old rats, LTP in slices from mature rats is not inhibited by MK-801 but is blocked by nifedipine. These results suggest that factors contributing to LTP in slices from mature rats require careful consideration under different experimental paradigms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Izumi
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Zorumski
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers / Q000494:pharmacology; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000502:physiology*; D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate / Q000494:pharmacology; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D019706:Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000502:physiology; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D008274:Magnesium / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D009543:Nifedipine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers; D015220:Calcium Channels; D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate; D008274:Magnesium; D009543:Nifedipine; D002118:Calcium