Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 39, Issue 48, Pages 9532-9545Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0378-19.2019
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AMPA; dynamic clamp; estradiol; GABA; postsynaptic potential; potassium currents
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- National Institute of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01 HD41469]
- American Heart Association [13SDG16990083]
- University of Michigan Reproductive Sciences Program Pilot Grant
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Synaptic and intrinsic properties interact to sculpt neuronal output. Kisspeptin neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus help convey homeostatic estradiol feedback to central systems controlling fertility. Estradiol increases membrane depolarization induced by GABA(A) receptor activation in these neurons. We hypothesized that the mechanisms underlying estradiol-induced alterations in postsynaptic response to GABA, and also AMPA, receptor activation include regulation of voltage-gated potassium currents. Whole-cell recordings of arcuate kisspeptin neurons in brain slices from ovariectomized (OVX) and OVX+estradiol (OVX+E) female mice during estradiol negative feedback revealed that estradiol reduced capacitance, reduced transient and sustained potassium currents, and altered voltage dependence and kinetics of transient currents. Consistent with these observations, estradiol reduced rheobase and action potential latency. To study more directly interactions between synaptic and active intrinsic estradiol feedback targets, dynamic clamp was used to simulate GABA and AMPA conductances. Both GABA and AMPA dynamic clamp-induced postsynaptic potentials (PSPs) were smaller in neurons from OVX than OVX+E mice; blocking transient potassium currents eliminated this difference. To interrogate the role of the estradiol-induced changes in passive intrinsic properties, different Markov model structures based on the properties of the transient potassium current in cells from OVX or OVX+E mice were combined in silico with passive properties reflecting these two endocrine conditions. Some of tested models reproduced the effect on PSPs in silico, revealing that AMPA PSPs were more sensitive to changes in capacitance. These observations support the hypothesis that PSPs in arcuate kisspeptin neurons are regulated by estradiol-sensitive mechanisms including potassium conductances and membrane properties.
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