title: Modulation of a neuronal network by electrical high frequency stimulation in striatal slices of the rat in vitro.
abstract: The effects of the GABA(A) receptor antagonist bicuculline, the D2-like receptor antagonist sulpiride and the D1-like receptor antagonist SCH-23390 on the electrical high frequency stimulation (HFS)-evoked gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and dopamine (DA) release were measured from slices of the rat striatum by means of HPLC method with electrochemical detection. HFS with 130Hz stimulated veratridine-activated GABAergic neurons resulting in an increased GABA outflow while DA outflow decreased. In the presence of the GABA(A) receptor antagonist bicuculline extracellular GABA and DA outflow were enhanced. When the competitive dopamine D2-like receptor antagonist S-(-)-sulpiride was added to incubation medium, the HFS-evoked stimulatory effect on GABA outflow declined to values found after veratridine (1microM) without HFS. After co-incubation of sulpiride and the competitive D1-like receptor antagonist R-(+)-SCH-23390, the effect of sulpiride on HFS plus veratridine-evoked GABA outflow was completely reversed. Neither sulpiride nor SCH-23390 had any influence on the effect of HFS on veratridine-induced DA outflow. No effect of HFS on glutamate outflow was observed in all experiments. These results led us to suggest that in our model HFS primarily affects GABAergic neurons. These neurons are embedded in a neuronal network with a GABA-dopamine circuit, and thus, HFS interacts with a neuronal network, not only with one neurotransmitter system or one neuron population.
authors.affiliation: Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, PR China.
authors.forename: Tianlang
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ansgar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thümen
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moser
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009415:Nerve Net; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar