Calcium channels triggering transmitter release in the rat medial superior olive.
Hearing research(2001)
Abstract
We used whole cell voltage clamp recordings from neurones in rat auditory brainstem slices to study the Ca(2+) channel types involved in triggering synaptic glutamate and glycine release in the medial superior olivary nucleus. Glutamate release from the anterior ventral cochlear (aVCN) bushy neurone synapse did not involve L-type Ca(2+) channels (alpha(1C-D); Ca(V)1.2-1.3), but was mediated with similar efficacies by both N-type (alpha(1B); Ca(V)2.2) and the P/Q-type Ca(2+) channels (alpha(1A); Ca(V)2.1). Glycine release from the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) synapse was mediated predominantly by P/Q-type Ca(2+) channels, but with a significant contribution from N-type Ca(2+) channels. Combined application of the P/Q- and N-type Ca(2+) channel toxins, omega-agatoxin IVA and omega-conotoxin GVIA, left a very small remnant of both the inhibitory and excitatory postsynaptic currents, probably reflecting a minimal contribution of R-type Ca(2+) channels (alpha(1E); Ca(V)2.3) to transmitter release. In contrast with aVCN bushy neurones, MNTB somata lacked both T- (alpha(1G-I); Ca(V)3.1-3.3) and L-type channels, but expressed a higher proportion of P/Q-type Ca(2+) channels.
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