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Kainate-type of glutamate receptors regulate wiring of intrinsic glutamatergic connectivity in the amygdala

Ryazantseva, M.; Englund, J.; Shintyapina, A.; Huupponen, J.; Pitkänen, A.; Partanen, J. M.; Lauri, S. E.

2019-08-30 neuroscience
10.1101/753103 bioRxiv
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Perturbed information processing in the amygdala has been implicated in developmentally originating neuropsychiatric disorders. However, little is known on the mechanisms that guide formation and refinement of intrinsic connections between amygdaloid nuclei. We demonstrate that the glutamatergic connection from basolateral to central amygdala (BLA-CeA) develops rapidly during the first ten postnatal days, before external inputs underlying amygdala dependent behaviors emerge. During this restricted period of synaptic development, kainate-type of ionotropic glutamate receptors (KARs) are highly expressed in the BLA and tonically activated to regulate glutamate release via a G-protein dependent mechanism. Genetic manipulation of this endogenous KAR activity locally in the newborn LA perturbed development of glutamatergic input to CeA, identifying KARs as a physiological mechanism regulating wiring of the intrinsic glutamatergic circuitry in the amygdala.

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