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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2003

Calcium dependence of retrograde inhibition by endocannabinoids at synapses onto Purkinje cells.

Stephan D Brenowitz, Wade G Regehr

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephan D BrenowitzDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Wade G Regehr
Harvard University · US

Funding

Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity in the CNSR01NS032405 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI REGEHR, WADE G · 1995 to 2016
$4.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS032405NINDS NIH HHS R01-NS32405-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many types of neurons release endocannabinoids from their dendrites in response to elevation of intracellular calcium levels. Endocannabinoids then activate presynaptic cannabinoid receptors, thereby inhibiting neurotransmitter release for tens of seconds. A crucial step in understanding the physiological role of this retrograde signaling is to determine its sensitivity to elevations of postsynaptic calcium. Here we determine and compare the calcium dependence of endocannabinoid-mediated retrograde inhibition at three types of synapses onto cerebellar Purkinje cells. Previous studies have shown that Purkinje cell depolarization results in endocannabinoid-mediated retrograde inhibition of synapses received from climbing fibers, granule cell parallel fibers, and inhibitory interneurons. Using several calcium indicators with a range of affinities, we performed a series of in situ and in vitro calibrations to quantify calcium levels in Purkinje cells. We found that postsynaptic calcium levels of approximately 15 microM are required for half-maximal retrograde inhibition at all of these synapses. In contrast, previous studies had suggested that endocannabinoid release could occur with slight elevations of calcium above resting levels, which implies that inhibition should be widespread and continuously modulated by subtle changes in intracellular calcium levels. However, our results indicate that such small changes in intracellular calcium are not sufficient to evoke endocannabinoid release. Instead, because of its high requirement for calcium, retrograde inhibition mediated by calcium-dependent endocannabinoid release from Purkinje cells will occur under more restricted conditions and with greater spatial localization than previously appreciated.

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AnimalsCalciumCalcium SignalingCannabinoid Receptor ModulatorsCerebellumElectric StimulationEndocannabinoidsExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsFatty Acids, UnsaturatedFluorescent DyesIn Vitro TechniquesNeural InhibitionPatch-Clamp TechniquesPurkinje CellsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyCalciumCannabinoid Receptor ModulatorsEndocannabinoidsFatty Acids, UnsaturatedFluorescent Dyes

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PMID12867523
PMCPMC6740543
OpenAlexW1951096396

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