PMID- 17522311 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070622 LR - 20220309 IS - 1529-2401 (Electronic) IS - 0270-6474 (Print) IS - 0270-6474 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 21 DP - 2007 May 23 TI - Recurrent dendrodendritic inhibition of accessory olfactory bulb mitral cells requires activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors. PG - 5664-71 AB - Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) modulate neural excitability and network tone in many brain regions. Expression of mGluRs is particularly high in the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB), a CNS structure critical for detecting chemicals that identify kin and conspecifics. Because of its relative simplicity and its direct projection to the hypothalamus, the AOB provides a model system for studying how mGluRs affect the flow of encoded sensory information to downstream areas. We investigated the role of group I mGluRs in synaptic processing in AOB slices and found that under control conditions, recurrent inhibition of principal neurons (mitral cells) was completely eliminated by the mGluR1 antagonist LY367385 [(S)-(+)-alpha-amino-4-carboxy-2 methylbenzeneacetic acid]. In addition, the group I mGluR agonist DHPG [(S)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine; 20 microM] induced a dramatic increase in the rate of spontaneous IPSCs. This increase was dependent on voltage-gated calcium channels but persisted even after blockade of ionotropic glutamatergic transmission and sodium channels. Together, these results indicate that mGluR1 plays a critical role in controlling information flow through the AOB and suggest that mGluR1 may be an important locus for experience-dependent changes in synaptic function. FAU - Castro, Jason B AU - Castro JB AD - Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA. FAU - Hovis, Kenneth R AU - Hovis KR FAU - Urban, Nathaniel N AU - Urban NN LA - eng GR - F31 DC008230/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DC005798/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 DC006631/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States GR - F31 DC08230/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Neurosci JT - The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience JID - 8102140 RN - 0 (Benzoates) RN - 0 (Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate) RN - 0 (metabotropic glutamate receptor type 1) RN - 146669-29-6 (alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine) RN - 534-82-7 (Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol) RN - TE7660XO1C (Glycine) RN - UEH9K539KJ (3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycol) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Benzoates/pharmacology MH - Dendrites/drug effects/*physiology MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Glycine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology MH - Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects/physiology MH - Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology MH - Mice MH - Neural Inhibition/drug effects/*physiology MH - Olfactory Bulb/drug effects/*physiology MH - Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate/agonists/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism MH - Time Factors PMC - PMC6672756 EDAT- 2007/05/25 09:00 MHDA- 2007/06/23 09:00 PMCR- 2007/11/23 CRDT- 2007/05/25 09:00 PHST- 2007/05/25 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/06/23 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/05/25 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2007/11/23 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 27/21/5664 [pii] AID - 3223406 [pii] AID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0613-07.2007 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Neurosci. 2007 May 23;27(21):5664-71. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0613-07.2007.