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Lack of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 Shifts Cannabinoid-Dependent Excitatory Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of the Mouse Brain Hippocampus.

ABSTRACT: The transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) participates in synaptic functions in the brain. In the dentate gyrus, post-synaptic TRPV1 in the granule cell (GC) dendritic spines mediates a type of long-term depression (LTD) of the excitatory medial perforant path (MPP) synapses independent of pre-synaptic cannabinoid CB₁ receptors. As CB₁ receptors also mediate LTD at these synapses, both CB₁ and TRPV1 might be influencing the activity of each other acting from opposite synaptic sites. We tested this hypothesis in the MPP-GC synapses of mice lacking TRPV1 (TRPV1-/-). Unlike wild-type (WT) mice, low-frequency stimulation (10 min at 10 Hz) of TRPV1-/- MPP fibers elicited a form of long-term potentiation (LTP) that was dependent on (1) CB₁ receptors, (2) the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), (3) rearrangement of actin filaments, and (4) nitric oxide signaling. These functional changes were associated with an increase in the maximum binding efficacy of guanosine-5'-O-(3-[³⁵S]thiotriphosphate) ([³⁵S]GTPγS) stimulated by the CB₁ receptor agonist CP 55,940, and a significant decrease in receptor basal activation in the TRPV1-/- hippocampus. Finally, TRPV1-/- hippocampal synaptosomes showed an augmented level of the guanine nucleotide-binding (G) Gα_i1, Gα_i2, and Gα_i3 protein alpha subunits. Altogether, the lack of TRPV1 modifies CB₁ receptor signaling in the dentate gyrus and causes the shift from CB₁ receptor-mediated LTD to LTP at the MPP-GC synapses.

SUBMITTER: Egana-Huguet J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8294191 | biostudies-literature |

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