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Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin

Dysbindin-1 (dystrobrevin-binding protein 1, DTNBP1) is one of the promising schizophrenia susceptibility genes. Dysbindin protein is abundantly expressed in synaptic regions of the hippocampus, including the terminal field of the mossy fibers, and this hippocampal expression of dysbindin is strongl...

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Autores principales: Kobayashi, Katsunori, Umeda-Yano, Satomi, Yamamori, Hidenaga, Takeda, Masatoshi, Suzuki, Hidenori, Hashimoto, Ryota
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21448290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018113
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author Kobayashi, Katsunori
Umeda-Yano, Satomi
Yamamori, Hidenaga
Takeda, Masatoshi
Suzuki, Hidenori
Hashimoto, Ryota
author_facet Kobayashi, Katsunori
Umeda-Yano, Satomi
Yamamori, Hidenaga
Takeda, Masatoshi
Suzuki, Hidenori
Hashimoto, Ryota
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description Dysbindin-1 (dystrobrevin-binding protein 1, DTNBP1) is one of the promising schizophrenia susceptibility genes. Dysbindin protein is abundantly expressed in synaptic regions of the hippocampus, including the terminal field of the mossy fibers, and this hippocampal expression of dysbindin is strongly reduced in patients with schizophrenia. In the present study, we examined the functional role of dysbindin in hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 synaptic transmission and its modulation using the sandy mouse, a spontaneous mutant with deletion in the dysbindin gene. Electrophysiological recordings were made in hippocampal slices prepared from adult male sandy mice and their wild-type littermates. Basic properties of the mossy fiber synaptic transmission in the mutant mice were generally normal except for slightly reduced frequency facilitation. Serotonin and dopamine, two major neuromodulators implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, can potentiate mossy fiber synaptic transmission probably via an increase in cAMP levels. Synaptic potentiation induced by serotonin and dopamine was very variable in magnitude in the mutant mice, with some mice showing prominent enhancement as compared with the wild-type mice. In addition, the magnitude of potentiation induced by these monoamines significantly correlated with each other in the mutant mice, indicating that a subpopulation of sandy mice has marked hypersensitivity to both serotonin and dopamine. While direct activation of the cAMP cascade by forskolin induced robust synaptic potentiation in both wild-type and mutant mice, this forskolin-induced potentaition correlated in magnitude with the serotonin-induced potentiation only in the mutant mice, suggesting a possible change in coupling of receptor activation to downstream signaling. These results suggest that the dysbindin deficiency could be an essential genetic factor that causes synaptic hypersensitivity to dopamine and serotonin. The altered monoaminergic modulation at the mossy fiber synapse could be a candidate pathophysiological basis for impairment of hippocampus-dependent brain functions in schizophrenia.
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spelling pubmed-30632432011-03-29 Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin Kobayashi, Katsunori Umeda-Yano, Satomi Yamamori, Hidenaga Takeda, Masatoshi Suzuki, Hidenori Hashimoto, Ryota PLoS One Research Article Dysbindin-1 (dystrobrevin-binding protein 1, DTNBP1) is one of the promising schizophrenia susceptibility genes. Dysbindin protein is abundantly expressed in synaptic regions of the hippocampus, including the terminal field of the mossy fibers, and this hippocampal expression of dysbindin is strongly reduced in patients with schizophrenia. In the present study, we examined the functional role of dysbindin in hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 synaptic transmission and its modulation using the sandy mouse, a spontaneous mutant with deletion in the dysbindin gene. Electrophysiological recordings were made in hippocampal slices prepared from adult male sandy mice and their wild-type littermates. Basic properties of the mossy fiber synaptic transmission in the mutant mice were generally normal except for slightly reduced frequency facilitation. Serotonin and dopamine, two major neuromodulators implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, can potentiate mossy fiber synaptic transmission probably via an increase in cAMP levels. Synaptic potentiation induced by serotonin and dopamine was very variable in magnitude in the mutant mice, with some mice showing prominent enhancement as compared with the wild-type mice. In addition, the magnitude of potentiation induced by these monoamines significantly correlated with each other in the mutant mice, indicating that a subpopulation of sandy mice has marked hypersensitivity to both serotonin and dopamine. While direct activation of the cAMP cascade by forskolin induced robust synaptic potentiation in both wild-type and mutant mice, this forskolin-induced potentaition correlated in magnitude with the serotonin-induced potentiation only in the mutant mice, suggesting a possible change in coupling of receptor activation to downstream signaling. These results suggest that the dysbindin deficiency could be an essential genetic factor that causes synaptic hypersensitivity to dopamine and serotonin. The altered monoaminergic modulation at the mossy fiber synapse could be a candidate pathophysiological basis for impairment of hippocampus-dependent brain functions in schizophrenia. Public Library of Science 2011-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3063243/ /pubmed/21448290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018113 Text en Kobayashi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Kobayashi, Katsunori
Umeda-Yano, Satomi
Yamamori, Hidenaga
Takeda, Masatoshi
Suzuki, Hidenori
Hashimoto, Ryota
Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin
title Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin
title_full Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin
title_fullStr Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin
title_full_unstemmed Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin
title_short Correlated Alterations in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulations at the Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapse in Mice Lacking Dysbindin
title_sort correlated alterations in serotonergic and dopaminergic modulations at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse in mice lacking dysbindin
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21448290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018113
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