Abstract
This article describes the onset of electrical excitability and synaptic transmission in the retinocollicular pathway of the fetal and early postnatal rat, utilizing a novel in vitro preparation. Although the optic nerve is visible in embryonic day (E) 14 brain, its stimulation produced no response in the superior colliculus (SC) until E16 when a low voltage simple negative wave was evoked. At E17 these potentials were blocked rapidly, completely, and reversibly when choline was substituted for sodium or with the addition of cobalt ions. In the course of establishing the block with either of the above agents the latency of response increased, indicating an action on axonal transmission. By E20 the collicular evoked potential showed a short followed by a longer latency wave. The latter was blocked by the glutamate antagonist kynurenic acid, with latency unaffected. Further examination of potentials with the addition of glutamatergic receptor subtype blockers aminophosphonopentanoic acid (APV) and 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione/6,7-dinitroquinoxaline- 2,3-dione (CNQX/DNQX) showed a clear abolition of the elicited potentials by E20 and older. Thus, fetal rat optic nerve fibers are capable of conduction in response to electri...Continue Reading
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