Immunoautoradiographic evidence for a loss of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate-preferring non-N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors within the medial temporal lobe in schizophrenia

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作者
Eastwood, SL
Kerwin, RW
Harrison, PJ
机构
[1] UNIV OXFORD,DEPT PSYCHIAT,OXFORD,ENGLAND
[2] UNIV OXFORD,DEPT CLIN NEUROL NEUROPATHOL,OXFORD,ENGLAND
[3] INST PSYCHIAT,DEPT CLIN NEUROPHARMACOL,LONDON,ENGLAND
基金
英国惠康基金;
关键词
AMPA receptor; glutamate receptor; hippocampus; human brain; schizophrenia;
D O I
10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00220-X
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Decreased expression of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxacole propionate (AMPA)-preferring non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) glutamate receptors (GluRs) occurs in the medial temporal lobe of schizophrenics in terms of reduced abundance of GluR1 and GluR2 subunit mRNAs. To investigate further these receptors in schizophrenia, we have performed a quantitative immunoautoradiographic study in medial temporal lobe sections of II schizophrenics and 10 well-matched controls. GluR1 and GluR2/3 were detected with polyclonal antisera coupled to S-35-labeled secondary antibodies. Both subunits were vulnerable to a prolonged postmortem interval and poor agonal state as indicated by brain pH. GluR1 also tended to decline with increasing age. These factors were therefore used as covariates. GluR1 abundance was reduced in schizophrenics in parahippocampal gyrus (p < .025). While GluR2/3 was lower in most subfields in the schizophrenics, significantly so in CA4 (p < .02). The present data extend the evidence for decreased expression of the AMPA subtype of non-NMDA receptors in the medial temporal lobe in schizophrenia, although the magnitude and spatial extent of the loss is smaller than that affecting the encoding mRNAs. Impaired AMPA receptor expression is consistent with a neurodevelopmental origin and with hypotheses of glutamatergic hypofunction in the disease; however, ifs true pathophysiological significance and relationship to the other neuropathological and pathochemical abnormalities in the medial temporal lobe in schizophrenia remain to be determined. (C) 1997 Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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