title: Enhancement of long-term potentiation at CA1-subiculum synapses in MK-801-treated rats.
abstract: The subiculum plays a key role in processing neuronal information from the hippocampus to different cortical and subcortical brain regions. The subicular projections to the nucleus accumbens and the prefrontal cortex have received increasing attention, as alterations of their activity seem to be involved in schizophrenia. Phencyclidine and other non-competitive antagonists of NMDA receptors (such as ketamine and MK-801) induce psychotic effects in humans that closely resemble the positive, negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. Using the MK-801 model of psychosis, we investigated the time course of alterations of synaptic transmission and plasticity at CA1-subiculum synapses of hippocampal brain slices 4 h, 24 h and 4 weeks after MK-801 treatment. We report here that systemic application of MK-801 causes a facilitation of LTP at CA1-subiculum synapses 24 h after treatment as compared with control LTP. Four weeks after MK-801 treatment, the magnitude of LTP reversed to control values. The priming of LTP 24 h after systemic application of MK-801 suggest a new form of metaplasticity that sheds light on the delayed facilitating effect of this drug on synaptic efficacy.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Research Center, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Campus Charite Mitte, Schumannstr. 20/21, Germany.
authors.forename: Nadine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: Sebat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cali
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Behr
mesh_terms: D015763:2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D019706:Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology / Q000528:radiation effects; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology / Q000528:radiation effects; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate; D015763:2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate