Cytosolic phospholipase A2 alpha mediates electrophysiologic responses of hippocampal pyramidal neurons to neurotoxic NMDA treatment
Cytosolic phospholipase A2 alpha mediates electrophysiologic responses of hippocampal pyramidal neurons to neurotoxic NMDA treatment
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10.1073/pnas.0605427104
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2007-04
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Ying Shen;K. Kishimoto;D. Linden;A. Sapirstein
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Ying Shen;K. Kishimoto;D. Linden;A. Sapirstein
The arachidonic acid-generating enzyme cytosolic phospholipase A2 alpha (cPLA2α) has been implicated in the progression of excitotoxic neuronal injury. However, the mechanisms of cPLA2α toxicity have yet to be determined. Here, we used a model system exposing mouse hippocampal slices to NMDA as an excitotoxic injury, in combination with simultaneous patch-clamp recording and confocal Ca2+ imaging of CA1 pyramidal neurons. NMDA treatment caused significantly greater injury in wild-type (WT) than in cPLA2α null CA1 neurons. Bath application of NMDA evoked a slow inward current in voltage-clamped neurons (composed of both NMDA receptor-mediated and other conductances) that was smaller in cPLA2α null than in WT slices. This was not due to down-regulation of NMDA receptor function because NMDA receptor-mediated currents were equivalent in each genotype following brief photolysis of caged glutamate. Current-clamp recordings were made during and following NMDA exposure by eliciting a single action potential with a brief current injection. After NMDA exposure, WT CA1 neurons developed a spike-evoked plateau potential and an increased spike-evoked dendritic Ca2+ transient. These effects were absent in CA1 neurons from cPLA2α null mice and WT neurons treated with a cPLA2α inhibitor. The Ca-sensitive K-channel toxins, apamin and paxilline, caused spike broadening and Ca2+ enhancement in WT and cPLA2α null slices. NMDA application in WT and arachidonate applied to cPLA2α null cells occluded the effects of apamin/paxilline. These results indicate that cPLA2α activity is required for development of aberrant electrophysiologic events triggered by NMDA receptor activation, in part through attenuation of K-channel function.