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Endogenous opioids regulate moment-to-moment neuronal communication and excitability.


ABSTRACT: Fear and emotional learning are modulated by endogenous opioids but the cellular basis for this is unknown. The intercalated cells (ITCs) gate amygdala output and thus regulate the fear response. Here we find endogenous opioids are released by synaptic stimulation to act via two distinct mechanisms within the main ITC cluster. Endogenously released opioids inhibit glutamate release through the ?-opioid receptor (DOR), an effect potentiated by a DOR-positive allosteric modulator. Postsynaptically, the opioids activate a potassium conductance through the ?-opioid receptor (MOR), suggesting for the first time that endogenously released opioids directly regulate neuronal excitability. Ultrastructural localization of endogenous ligands support these functional findings. This study demonstrates a new role for endogenously released opioids as neuromodulators engaged by synaptic activity to regulate moment-to-moment neuronal communication and excitability. These distinct actions through MOR and DOR may underlie the opposing effect of these receptor systems on anxiety and fear.

SUBMITTER: Winters BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5364458 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Endogenous opioids regulate moment-to-moment neuronal communication and excitability.

Winters Bryony L BL   Gregoriou Gabrielle C GC   Kissiwaa Sarah A SA   Wells Oliver A OA   Medagoda Danashi I DI   Hermes Sam M SM   Burford Neil T NT   Alt Andrew A   Aicher Sue A SA   Bagley Elena E EE  

Nature communications 20170322


Fear and emotional learning are modulated by endogenous opioids but the cellular basis for this is unknown. The intercalated cells (ITCs) gate amygdala output and thus regulate the fear response. Here we find endogenous opioids are released by synaptic stimulation to act via two distinct mechanisms within the main ITC cluster. Endogenously released opioids inhibit glutamate release through the δ-opioid receptor (DOR), an effect potentiated by a DOR-positive allosteric modulator. Postsynaptically  ...[more]

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