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Neuroscience

Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 815-826
Neuroscience

Metabotropic glutamate receptors mGluR2 and mGluR5 are expressed in two non-overlapping populations of Golgi cells in the rat cerebellum

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Abstract

The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtypes mG1uR2 and mG1uR5, which are thought to be coupled respectively to the inhibitory cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) cascade and the phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis/Ca2+ cascade, are known to be expressed on Golgi cells in the granular layer of the rat cerebellar cortex. In the present immunohistochemical study with a monoclonal antibody against mG1uR2 and a polyclonal antibody for mG1uR5, we examined whether or not mG1uR2- and mGluR5-like immunoreactivities were both present in single Golgi cells in the rat cerebellar cortex. In double immunofluorescence histochemistry, no Golgi cells showed mG1uR2- and mG1uR5-like immunoreactivities simultaneously. Of the total number of Golgi cells immunoreactive for mG1uR2 or mG1uR5, about 90% were mG1uR2-like immunoreactive, and about 10% were mG1uR5-like immunoreactive. Golgi cells with mG1uR2-like immunoreactivity were distributed evenly in the granular layer of all the cerebellar regions, while those with mG1uR5-like immunoreactivity were distributed more frequently in the 1, II, VII–X lobules of the vermis and the copula pyramidis of the hemisphere than in other cerebellar regions.

The results indicate that Golgi cells containing mG1uR2 are segregated from those possessing mG1uR5. These two populations of Golgi cells, each equipped with a different metabolic glutamate receptor coupled to a different intracellular signal transduction system, may play different roles in the glutamatergic neuronal circuits in the cerebellar cortex.

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