D1 and D2 dopamine receptors in separate circuits cooperate to drive associative long-term potentiation in the prefrontal cortex
- 30 August 2010
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Vol. 107 (37), 16366-16371
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1004108107
Abstract
Dopamine release associated with motivational arousal is thought to drive goal-directed learning and consolidation of acquired memories. This dopamine hypothesis of learning and motivation directly suggests that dopamine is necessary for modifications of excitatory synapses in dopamine terminal fields, including the prefrontal cortex (PFC), to "stamp in" posttrial memory traces. It is unknown how such enabling occurs in native circuits tightly controlled by GABAergic inhibitory tone. Here we report that dopamine, via both D1-class receptors (D1Rs) and D2-class receptors (D2Rs), enables the induction of spike timing-dependent long-term potentiation (t-LTP) in layer V PFC pyramidal neurons over a "window" of more than 30 ms that is otherwise closed under intact inhibitory constraint. Dopamine acts at D2Rs in local GABAergic interneurons to suppress inhibitory transmission, gating the induction of t-LTP. Moreover, dopamine activates postsynaptic D1Rs in excitatory synapses to allow t-LTP induction at a substantially extended, normally ineffective, timing interval (+30 ms), thus increasing the associability of prepost coincident stimuli. Although the D2R-mediated disinhibition alone is sufficient to gate t-LTP at a normal timing (+10 ms), t-LTP at +30 ms requires concurrent activation of both D1Rs and D2Rs. Our results illustrate a previously unrecognized circuit-level mechanism by which dopamine receptors in separate microcircuits cooperate to drive Hebbian synaptic plasticity across a significant temporal window under intact inhibition. This mechanism should be important in functioning of interconnected PFC microcircuits, in which D1Rs and D2Rs are not colocalized but their coactivation is necessary.This publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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