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Vol. 302, Issue 3, 1135-1145, September 2002

Electrophysiological Evidence for Expression of Glycine Receptors in Freshly Isolated Neurons from Nucleus Accumbens

Gilles Martin and George Robert Siggins

Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California

In the course of studying N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), we found that 20% of freshly isolated medium spiny neurons, as well as all interneurons, responded in an unexpected way to long (5-s) coapplication of NMDA and glycine, the coagonist of NMDA receptors. Whereas the reversal potential of the peak NMDA current of this subset of neurons was still around 0 mV, the desensitizing current became outward at hyperpolarized potentials around -30 mV. A Cl--free solution shifted the equilibrium potentials of the desensitized currents to around 0 mV. This outward current was not blocked by a Ca2+-free, Ba2+-containing solution, suggesting that the anionic conductance was not activated by Ca2+ influx through NMDA receptor channels. Interestingly, glycine alone also evoked a current with a similar hyperpolarized reversal potential in this subset of neurons. The glycine current reversed around -50 mV, rectified outwardly, and inactivated strongly. Its desensitization was best fitted with a double exponential. Only the slow desensitization showed clear voltage dependence. The glycine current was not blocked by 200 µM picrotoxin and 10 µM zinc, was weakly antagonized by 1 µM strychnine, and was not enhanced by 1 µM zinc. In addition, 1 mM taurine, but not GABA, inactivated glycine currents, and 1 mM glycine occluded 10 mM taurine-mediated currents. These data indicate that a subset of nucleus accumbens neurons expresses glycine receptors and that either glycine or taurine could be an endogenous agonist for these receptors.

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