Abstract
We have recently shown delayed increases in GABAB receptor (GABABR) subunit protein levels in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG), but not in the pyramidal CA1 and CA3 regions, at 15–30 days after the systemic single administration of trimethyltin (TMT) in mice. An attempt was thus made to determine whether the delayed increases return to the control levels found in naive mice afterward. In the DG on hippocampal slices obtained at 90 days after the administration, however, marked increases were still seen in protein levels of both GABABR1 and GABABR2 subunits without significant changes in calbindin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels on immunoblotting analysis. Fluoro-Jade B staining clearly revealed the absence of degenerated neurons from the DG at 90 days after the administration. Although co-localization was invariably detected between GABABR2 subunit and GFAP in the DG at 30 days on immunohistochemical analysis, GABABR2-positive cells did not merge well with GFAP-positive cells in the DG at 90 days. These results suggest that both GABABR1 and GABABR2 subunits would be tardily and sustainably up-regulated by cells other than neurons and astrocytes in the murine DG at 90 days after a systemic single injection of TMT.
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