Ethanol inhibition of m-current and ethanol-induced direct excitation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons.
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- Koyama, Susumu; Brodie, Mark S; Appel, Sarah B
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- 2007
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- Journal of neurophysiology
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- 16956995
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- 10.1152/jn.00270.2006
- PMCID
- PMC2372163
Ethanol-induced excitation of ventral tegmental area dopamine (DA VTA) neurons is thought to be critical for the reinforcing effects of ethanol. Although ligand-gated ion channels are known to be the targets of ethanol, ethanol modulation of voltage-dependent ion channels of central neurons has not been well studied. We have demonstrated that ethanol excites DA VTA neurons by the reduction of sustained K(+) currents and recently reported that M-current (I(M)) regulates action potential generation through fast and slow afterhyperpolarization phases. In the present study we thus examined whether ethanol inhibition of I(M) contributes to the excitation of DA VTA neurons using nystatin-perforated patch current- and voltage-clamp recordings. Ethanol (20-120 mM) reduced I(M) in a concentration-dependent manner and increased the spontaneous firing frequency of DA VTA neurons. Ethanol-induced increase in spontaneous firing frequency correlated positively with ethanol inhibition of I(M) with a slope value of 1.3. Specific I(M) inhibition by XE991 (0.3-10 microM) increased spontaneous firing frequency which correlated positively with I(M) inhibition with a slope value of 0.5. In the presence of 10 muM XE991, a concentration that produced maximal inhibition of I(M), ethanol still increased the spontaneous firing frequency of DA VTA neurons in a concentration-dependent manner. Thus we conclude that, although ethanol causes inhibition of I(M) and this results in some increase in the firing frequency of DA VTA neurons, another effect of ethanol is primarily responsible for the ethanol-induced increase in firing rate in these neurons.
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