Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-triggered Temporally Patterned Action Potential-dependent Spontaneous Synaptic Transmission in Mouse MNTB Neurons

Overview

Journal Hear Res

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 2023 Jun 7

PMID 37285615

Authors

Huimei Wang

Kang Peng

Rebecca J Curry

Dong Li

Yuan Wang

Xiaoyu Wang

Yong Lu

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Abstract

Rhythmic action potentials (AP) are generated via intrinsic ionic mechanisms in pacemaking neurons, producing synaptic responses of regular inter-event intervals (IEIs) in their targets. In auditory processing, evoked temporally patterned activities are induced when neural responses timely lock to a certain phase of the sound stimuli. Spontaneous spike activity, however, is a stochastic process, rendering the prediction of the exact timing of the next event completely based on probability. Furthermore, neuromodulation mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) is not commonly associated with patterned neural activities. Here, we report an intriguing phenomenon. In a subpopulation of medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) neurons recorded under whole-cell voltage-clamp mode in acute mouse brain slices, temporally patterned AP-dependent glycinergic sIPSCs and glutamatergic sEPSCs were elicited by activation of group I mGluRs with 3,5-DHPG (200 µM). Auto-correlation analyses revealed rhythmogenesis in these synaptic responses. Knockout of mGluR5 largely eliminated the effects of 3,5-DHPG. Cell-attached recordings showed temporally patterned spikes evoked by 3,5-DHPG in potential presynaptic VNTB cells for synaptic inhibition onto MNTB. The amplitudes of sEPSCs enhanced by 3,5-DHPG were larger than quantal size but smaller than spike-driven calyceal inputs, suggesting that non-calyceal inputs to MNTB might be responsible for the temporally patterned sEPSCs. Finally, immunocytochemical studies identified expression and localization of mGluR5 and mGluR1 in the VNTB-MNTB inhibitory pathway. Our results imply a potential central mechanism underlying the generation of patterned spontaneous spike activity in the brainstem sound localization circuit.

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