Abstract
In this report, two changes that occur in the presynaptic terminal following induction of long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus are examined, and the results demonstrate that the same changes are stimulated by the putative retrograde messenger arachidonic acid. First, there is an increase in the concentration of intracellular calcium in synaptosomes prepared from potentiated tissue compared with control tissue. This effect on intracellular calcium concentration was mimicked in control tissue by treatment of synaptosomes with either arachidonic acid or inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in a dose-dependent but nonadditive manner. Second, there is an increase in phosphoinositide turnover in synaptosomes prepared from potentiated tissue compared with control tissue, and this change can also be mimicked in control tissue by exposure of synaptosomes to arachidonic acid. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the increase in glutamate release associated with long-term potentiation may be stimulated by arachidonic acid, as a result of an increase in intrasynaptosomal calcium concentration, perhaps occurring as a result of arachidonate-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism.
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