Author:
Amaral Michelle D.,Pozzo-Miller Lucas
Abstract
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has potent actions on hippocampal neurons, but the mechanisms that initiate its effects are poorly understood. We report here that localized BDNF application to apical dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons evoked transient elevations in intracellular Ca2+concentration, which are independent of membrane depolarization and activation of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDAR). These Ca2+signals were always associated with IBDNF, a slow and sustained nonselective cationic current mediated by transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC3) channels. BDNF-induced Ca2+elevations required functional Trk and inositol-tris-phosphate (IP3) receptors, full intracellular Ca2+stores as well as extracellular Ca2+, suggesting the involvement of TRPC channels. Indeed, the TRPC channel inhibitor SKF-96365 prevented BDNF-induced Ca2+elevations and the associated IBDNF. Thus TRPC channels emerge as novel mediators of BDNF-induced intracellular Ca2+elevations associated with sustained cationic membrane currents in hippocampal pyramidal neurons.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology,General Neuroscience
Cited by
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