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Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 12, No. 2, 150-162, February 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Modulation by Serotonin 5-HT4 Receptors of Long-term Potentiation and Depotentiation in the Dentate Gyrus of Freely Moving Rats

Alexander Kulla and Denise Manahan-Vaughan

Institute for Physiology of the Charite, Synaptic Plasticity Group, Humboldt University, Tucholskystrasse 2, D-10117 Berlin, Germany

Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Institute for Physiology of the Charite, Synaptic Plasticity Group, Humboldt University, Tucholskystrasse 2, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. Email: denise.manahan-vaughan{at}charite.de.

Tetanization-induced long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippo-campus can be depotentiated by low-frequency stimulation. 5-HT4 receptors are expressed in the hippocampus and are suggested to be involved in hippocampus-dependent cognitive processes. Since the role of these receptors in the dentate gyrus has yet not been characterized, this study investigated the effects of 5-HT4 receptors on basal synaptic transmission, LTP and depotentiation in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats. Male Wistar rats were chronically implanted with a recording electrode in the dentate gyrus granule cell layer, a stimulation electrode in the medial perforant path and a cannula for drug administration in the ipsilateral ventricle. The 5-HT4 agonist methoxytryptamine dose-dependently inhibited basal synaptic transmission and LTP. Priming of receptors by a dose of this agonist which elicited no significant change of basal synaptic transmission inhibited depotentiation. These effects could be prevented by the 5-HT4 antagonist RS 39604, which did not produce independent effects on synaptic transmission, LTP or depotentiation. The effects of methoxytryptamine were confirmed with the highly selective 5-HT4 agonist, RS 67333. These results strongly support a role for 5-HT4 receptors in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and provide an important link to findings with regard to the involvement of 5-HT in processes related to learning and memory.


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