Synaptic and Nonsynaptic Localization of Benzodiazepine/GABAA Receptor/Cl- Channel Complex Using Monoclonal Antibodies in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Cat
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Synaptic and Nonsynaptic Localization of Benzodiazepine/GABAA Receptor/Cl- Channel Complex Using Monoclonal Antibodies in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Cat
Abstract
The two monoclonal antibodies, bd-17 and bd-24, are specific for beta- and alpha-subunits of the GABAA/benzodiazepine receptor/chloride channel complex respectively. An abundance of both subunits has been revealed in the visual thalamus of the cat by light microscopic immunocytochemistry using these antibodies. The alpha-subunit specific antibody and electron microscopy were used to determine the subcellular distribution of immunoreactivity with respect to specific cell classes in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus. Immunoreactivity was always associated with membranes and the degree of immunoreactivity varied greatly between different types of cell as defined by: (i) immunoreactivity for GABA; (ii) soma area; (iii) presence or absence of cytoplasmic laminated bodies (CLB). GABA negative neurons with the smallest soma area showed the strongest immunoreactivity, mainly in the endoplasmic reticulum and also on the somatic plasma membrane. Cytoplasmic laminated bodies could be found in the majority of these neurons. Large GABA negative cells without CLBs were strongly immunoreactive on the plasma membrane of the soma and dendrites, but showed scant if any intracellular immunoreactivity. GABA-positive cells showed weak intracellular immunoreactivity but negligible if any immunoreactivity at the somatic and proximal dendritic plasma membrane. A similar reaction pattern was found in GABA negative cells which contained no CLBs and which constituted a medium sized cell population. It is suggested that the degree of intracellular receptor immunoreactivity is positively correlated with receptor turnover. The dendrites of projection cells, particularly outside the glomeruli, showed strong immunoreactivity on the plasma membrane. The synaptic junctions formed by many boutons (F terminals) establishing symmetrical synapses with dendrites of relay cells were immunopositive, but no immunoreactivity could be detected at the synapses established by the presynaptic dendrites of the local interneurons. Many axo-somatic F1 junctions were also immunoreactive. However, immunoreactivity for the receptor/channel complex was also widely distribution on nonsynaptic plasma membranes of somata and dendrites. Thus GABA may act at both synaptic and non-synaptic sites. Furthermore, the correlation of immunoreactivity for the GABAA receptor complex with previously published properties of physiologically identified cells suggests that the strongly immunoreactive, small, GABA negative cells with CLBs might correspond to the 'lagged' X-type cells, and the large GABA negative receptor outlined cells without CLBs might correspond to some of the Y-type neurons.
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