An activity-dependent switch from facilitation to inhibition in the control of excitotoxicity by group I metabotropic glutamate receptors

The European Journal of Neuroscience
V BrunoF Nicoletti

Abstract

Activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlu1 or -5 receptors) is known to either enhance or attenuate excitotoxic neuronal death depending on the experimental conditions. We have examined the possibility that these receptors may switch between two different functional modes in regulating excitotoxicity. In mixed cultures of cortical cells, the selective mGlu1/5 agonist, 3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG), amplified neurodegeneration induced by a toxic pulse of NMDA. This effect was observed when DHPG was either combined with NMDA or transiently applied to the cultures prior to the NMDA pulse. However, two consecutive applications of DHPG consistently produced neuroprotection. Similar effects were observed with DHPG or quisqualate (a potent agonist of mGlu1/5 receptors) in pure cultures of cortical neurons virtually devoid of astrocytes. In cultures of hippocampal pyramidal neurons, however, only protective effects of DHPG were seen suggesting that, in these particular cultures, group I mGlu receptors were endogenously switched into a "neuroprotective mode". The characteristics of the activity-dependent switch from facilitation to inhibition were examined in mixed cultures of cortical cells. The switch in the res...Continue Reading

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