Involvement of the glutamatergic metabotropic receptors in the regulation of glutamate uptake and extracellular excitatory amino acid levels in the striatum of chloral hydrate-anesthetized rats

Brain Research
D SamuelL Kerkerian-Le Goff

Abstract

The microdialysis technique was used to assess in vivo the putative functional role of metabotropic excitatory amino acid receptors in regulating extracellular levels of the excitatory amino acids glutamate and aspartate in the striatum of chloral hydrate-anesthetized rats. Addition of the metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist (+)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG) (10(-3) or 4 x 10(-3) M) in the dialysis probe did not modify the basal extracellular levels of glutamate and aspartate but induced a significant dose-dependent decrease in the KCl-elicited elevation of glutamate and aspartate extracellular levels. The effect of MCPG on glutamate extracellular concentration under K+ stimulation was reduced by the simultaneous superfusion of the metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist (2S,3S,4S)-alpha-(carboxycyclopropyl)glycine) (L-CCG) (10(-3) M) which had no significant effect when tested alone. In contrast, L-CCG alone significantly potentiated the KCl-elicited elevation of aspartate extracellular concentrations but failed to modify the MCPG effect on this amino acid concentration. In a parallel series of experiments, high-affinity glutamate uptake was measured ex vivo 20 min after an in vivo injection of 10 pmol of M...Continue Reading

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