Characterization of audiogenic-like seizures in naive rats evoked by activation of AMPA and NMDA receptors in the inferior colliculus.

Abstract

The role of glutamate receptors in the inferior colliculus (IC) in audiogenic and audiogenic-like seizures was investigated in adult rats with transient neonatal hypothyroidism by 0.02% propylthiouracil (PTU) treatment through mother's milk (PTU rats) and in naive rats treated intracisternally with N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA), alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-proprionic acid (AMPA), or cyclothiazide, an inhibitor of rapid AMPA receptor desensitization. All rats showed audiogenic or audiogenic-like seizures characterized by running fit (RF) and generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS). While systemically administered MK-801 inhibited GTCS, intracisternally administered NBQX inhibited RF and GTCS in both audiogenic and audiogenic-like seizures. Auditory stimulation shortened the latency to GTCS induced by AMPA, but not NMDA, at a subclinical dose and further elongated the shortened duration of RF, but not GTCS, induced by MK-801 pretreatment. Furthermore, Northern blot analysis was used to evaluate the expression of the immediate-early gene c-fos in the IC following induction of audiogenic or audiogenic-like seizures. The significant induction of c-fos mRNA by audiogenic seizures in PTU rats or by AMPA- or cyclothiazide-induced seizures in naive rats was prominent in the IC. MK-801 suppressed c-fos mRNA expression in the IC induced by audiogenic seizures in PTU rats or by AMPA-induced seizures in naive rats. NBQX suppressed the expression of c-fos mRNA in the IC induced by AMPA-induced seizures but did not suppress c-fos mRNA in PTU rats or rats with cyclothiazide-induced seizures. Auditory stimuli failed to affect c-fos mRNA induction by AMPA. The present study suggests that audiogenic-like seizures can be reproduced by glutamate receptor agonists in which AMPA receptors are primarily linked to the initiation of audiogenic seizures (RF) while NMDA receptors presumably located within the IC are involved in the propagation of GTCS in audiogenic seizures.

• Authors: S Yasuda, N Ishida, A Higashiyama, S Morinobu, N Kato
• Journal: Experimental neurology (Exp Neurol) Vol. 164 Issue 2 Pg. 396-406 (Aug 2000) ISSN: 0014-4886 [Print] United States
• PMID: 10915578 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright 2000 Academic Press.

Chemical References

• Benzothiadiazines
• Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
• Quinoxalines
• RNA, Messenger
• Receptors, AMPA
• Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
• 2,3-dioxo-6-nitro-7-sulfamoylbenzo(f)quinoxaline
• N-Methylaspartate
• Dizocilpine Maleate
• Propylthiouracil
• alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid
• cyclothiazide

Topics

• Acoustic Stimulation
• Animals
• Animals, Suckling
• Benzothiadiazines (administration & dosage)
• Dizocilpine Maleate (administration & dosage)
• Drug Administration Routes
• Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists (administration & dosage)
• Female
• Hypothyroidism (chemically induced, metabolism, physiopathology)
• Inferior Colliculi (drug effects, metabolism)
• Injections, Intraventricular
• Male
• Maternal Exposure
• N-Methylaspartate (administration & dosage)
• Propylthiouracil
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos (genetics, metabolism)
• Quinoxalines (administration & dosage)
• RNA, Messenger (biosynthesis)
• Rats
• Rats, Sprague-Dawley
• Reaction Time (drug effects)
• Receptors, AMPA (antagonists & inhibitors, metabolism)
• Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (antagonists & inhibitors, metabolism)
• Seizures (chemically induced, drug therapy, metabolism)
• alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid (administration & dosage)