Lack of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 Shifts Cannabinoid-Dependent Excitatory Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of the Mouse Brain Hippocampus
The transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) participates in synaptic functions in the brain. In the dentate gyrus, post-synaptic TRPV1 in the granule cell (GC) dendritic spines mediates a type of long-term depression (LTD) of the excitatory medial perforant path (MPP) synapses independent o...
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Published in | Frontiers in neuroanatomy Vol. 15; p. 701573 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Frontiers Research Foundation
07.07.2021
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Summary: | The transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) participates in synaptic functions in the brain. In the dentate gyrus, post-synaptic TRPV1 in the granule cell (GC) dendritic spines mediates a type of long-term depression (LTD) of the excitatory medial perforant path (MPP) synapses independent of pre-synaptic cannabinoid CB
1
receptors. As CB
1
receptors also mediate LTD at these synapses, both CB
1
and TRPV1 might be influencing the activity of each other acting from opposite synaptic sites. We tested this hypothesis in the MPP–GC synapses of mice lacking TRPV1 (TRPV1-/-). Unlike wild-type (WT) mice, low-frequency stimulation (10 min at 10 Hz) of TRPV1-/- MPP fibers elicited a form of long-term potentiation (LTP) that was dependent on (1) CB
1
receptors, (2) the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), (3) rearrangement of actin filaments, and (4) nitric oxide signaling. These functional changes were associated with an increase in the maximum binding efficacy of guanosine-5′-O-(3-[
35
S]thiotriphosphate) ([
35
S]GTPγS) stimulated by the CB
1
receptor agonist CP 55,940, and a significant decrease in receptor basal activation in the TRPV1-/- hippocampus. Finally, TRPV1-/- hippocampal synaptosomes showed an augmented level of the guanine nucleotide-binding (G) Gα
i1
, Gα
i2
, and Gα
i3
protein alpha subunits. Altogether, the lack of TRPV1 modifies CB
1
receptor signaling in the dentate gyrus and causes the shift from CB
1
receptor-mediated LTD to LTP at the MPP–GC synapses. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Emmanuel Valjent, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Reviewed by: Motokazu Uchigashima, Niigata University, Japan; Ursula H. Winzer-Serhan, Texas A&M Health Science Center, United States |
ISSN: | 1662-5129 1662-5129 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fnana.2021.701573 |