PMID- 15049510 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040628 LR - 20191026 IS - 0272-4340 (Print) IS - 0272-4340 (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 1 DP - 2004 Feb TI - Endogenous dopamine maintains synchronous oscillation of intracellular calcium in primary cultured-mouse midbrain neurons. PG - 51-61 AB - We demonstrated synchronous oscillation of intracellular Ca2+ in cultured-mouse mid-brain neurons. This synchronous oscillation was thought to result from spontaneous and synchronous neural bursts in a synaptic neural network. We also examined the role of endogenous dopamine in neural networks showing synchronous oscillation. Immunocytochemical study revealed a few tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-positive dopaminergic neurons, and that cultured neurons expressed synaptophysin and synapsin I. Western blot analyses comfirmed synaptophysin, TH, and 2 types of dopamine receptor (DR), D1R and D2R expression. The synchronous oscillation in midbrain neurons was abolished by the application of R(-)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (AP-5) as an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist. This result suggests that the synchronous oscillation in midbrain neurons requires glutamatergic transmissions, as was the case in previously reported cortical neurons. SCH-12679, a D1R antagonist, inhibited synchronous oscillation in midbrain neurons, while raclopride, a D2R antagonist, induced a transient increase of intracellular Ca2+ and inhibited synchronous oscillation. We consider that endogenous dopamine maintains synchronous oscillation of intracellular Ca2+ through D1R and D2R, and that these DRs regulate intracellular Ca2+in distinctly different ways. Synchronous oscillation of midbrain neurons would be a useful tool for in vitro researches into various neural disorders directly or indirectly caused by dopaminergic neurons. FAU - Yasumoto, Fumie AU - Yasumoto F AD - Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan. aa37169@mail.eccu-tokyo.ac.jp FAU - Negishi, Takayuki AU - Negishi T FAU - Ishii, Yoshiyuki AU - Ishii Y FAU - Kyuwa, Shigeru AU - Kyuwa S FAU - Kuroda, Yoichiro AU - Kuroda Y FAU - Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro AU - Yoshikawa Y LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Cell Mol Neurobiol JT - Cellular and molecular neurobiology JID - 8200709 RN - 0 (Dopamine Antagonists) RN - 0 (Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists) RN - 0 (Receptors, Dopamine D1) RN - 0 (Receptors, Dopamine D2) RN - 0 (Synaptophysin) RN - EC 1.14.16.2 (Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) RN - VTD58H1Z2X (Dopamine) SB - IM MH - Action Potentials/drug effects/physiology MH - Animals MH - Biological Clocks/drug effects/*physiology MH - Calcium/*metabolism MH - Calcium Signaling/drug effects/*physiology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Dopamine/*metabolism MH - Dopamine Antagonists/pharmacology MH - Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology MH - Fetus MH - Intracellular Fluid/drug effects/metabolism MH - Mesencephalon/cytology/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred ICR MH - Neurons/cytology/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Receptors, Dopamine D1/drug effects/metabolism MH - Receptors, Dopamine D2/drug effects/metabolism MH - Synaptic Transmission/drug effects/physiology MH - Synaptophysin/metabolism MH - Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase/metabolism EDAT- 2004/03/31 05:00 MHDA- 2004/06/29 05:00 CRDT- 2004/03/31 05:00 PHST- 2004/03/31 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/06/29 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/03/31 05:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1023/b:cemn.0000012724.79184.b6 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2004 Feb;24(1):51-61. doi: 10.1023/b:cemn.0000012724.79184.b6.