Abstract
We demonstrated that glutamate increased the cyclic AMP level in cultured neurons from rat spinal cord. A bath application of glutamate (300 microM) elicited a rapid increase of the cyclic AMP concentration reaching a level three times as high as the basal level in approximately 3 min, and its content then decreased to the control level in 15 min. The increase was not observed in a Ca(2+)-free medium and was inhibited by an antagonist of NMDA receptors or a voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channel blocker. Preincubation with W7 also inhibited the glutamate-evoked cyclic AMP increase. NMDA, aspartate, and high-K+ conditions also induced a cyclic AMP increase; however, a decreasing phase did not follow. The decreasing phase was observed when (2S,1'S,2'S)-2-(carboxycyclopropyl)-glycine, a potent agonist for metabotropic glutamate receptors, was combined with NMDA. These results suggest that the cyclic AMP increase is mediated by a Ca2+ influx via both NMDA receptors and voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channels followed by an activation of the Ca2+/calmodulin system, and the decreasing phase observed in the case of glutamate exposure is due to the activation of the metabotropic glutamate receptors.
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