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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 592, Issue 1, Pages 67-86Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.261420
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- Medical Research Council UK [G0801316]
- Wellcome Trust [WT088970AIA]
- UCL School of Pharmacy scholarship
- 'Les fonds speciaux' of the University of Liege
- MRC [G116/147, G0801316, G0802158] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G116/147, G0802158, G0801316] Funding Source: researchfish
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Zinc actions on synaptic transmission span the modulation of neurotransmitter receptors, transporters, activation of intracellular cascades and alterations in gene expression. Whether and how zinc affects inhibitory synaptic signalling in the dentate gyrus remains largely unexplored. We found that mono- and di-synaptic GABAergic inputs onto dentate granule cells were reversibly depressed by exogenous zinc application and enhanced by zinc chelation. Blocking T-type Ca2+ channels prevented the effect of zinc chelation. When recording from dentate fast-spiking interneurones, zinc chelation facilitated T-type Ca2+ currents, increased action potential half-width and decreased spike threshold. It also increased the offset of the input-output relation in a manner consistent with enhanced excitability. In granule cells, chelation of zinc reduced the time window for the integration of glutamatergic inputs originating from perforant path synapses, resulting in reduced spike transfer. Thus, zinc-mediated modulation of dentate interneurone excitability and GABA release regulates information flow to local targets and hippocampal networks.
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