皮质酮可迅速降低雄性小鼠额前皮质下边缘区的谷氨酸能但不影响γ-氨基丁酸能传递。
Corticosterone rapidly reduces glutamatergic but not GABAergic transmission in the infralimbic prefrontal cortex of male mice.
机构信息
Dept. Translational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; University of Amsterdam, SILS-CNS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Dept. Translational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
出版信息
Steroids. 2023 Oct;198:109283. doi: 10.1016/j.steroids.2023.109283. Epub 2023 Jul 23.
Rapid non-genomic effects of corticosteroid hormones, affecting glutamatergic and GABAergic transmission, have been described for many limbic structures in the rodent brain. These rapid effects appear to be region specific. It is not always clear which (or even whether) corticosteroid receptor -the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) or mineralocorticoid receptor (MR)- initiate these rapid effects. In the hippocampus and amygdala membrane-associated MR, but also membrane-associated GR (in amygdala), are involved. Other studies indicate that the rapid modulation may be induced by transactivation of kinases, or other receptors, like the G-protein coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) which was recently found to bind the mineralocorticoid aldosterone. In the current study we explored, in young adult male C57Bl6 mice, possible rapid effects of corticosterone on layer 2/3 infralimbic-prefrontal cortex (IL-PFC) neurons. We show that corticosterone, via non-genomic MR activation, reduces the mEPSC -but does not affect mIPSC- frequency; we observed no effect on mEPSC or mIPSC amplitude. As a result, overall spontaneous activity in the IL-PFC is suppressed. A potential role of GPER cannot be excluded, since G-15, an antagonist of GPER, also prevented the rapid effects of corticosterone.
皮质甾类激素的快速非基因组效应,影响谷氨酸能和 GABA 能传递,已在啮齿动物大脑的许多边缘结构中被描述。这些快速效应似乎具有区域特异性。目前尚不清楚是哪种(甚至是否)皮质甾类受体 - 糖皮质激素受体(GR)或盐皮质激素受体(MR)引发了这些快速效应。在海马体和杏仁核中,膜相关的 MR 以及膜相关的 GR(在杏仁核中)都参与其中。其他研究表明,快速调节可能是通过激酶的转激活或其他受体(如 G 蛋白偶联雌激素受体(GPER))诱导的,最近发现该受体与盐皮质激素醛固酮结合。在目前的研究中,我们在年轻成年雄性 C57Bl6 小鼠中探索了皮质酮对 2/3 层下边缘前额叶皮层(IL-PFC)神经元的可能快速作用。我们表明,皮质酮通过非基因组 MR 激活,降低了 mEPSC 的频率,但不影响 mIPSC 的频率;我们没有观察到 mEPSC 或 mIPSC 幅度的影响。结果,IL-PFC 中的整体自发活动受到抑制。不能排除 GPER 的潜在作用,因为 G-15,GPER 的拮抗剂,也阻止了皮质酮的快速作用。