期刊
NEUROSCIENCE
卷 174, 期 -, 页码 50-63出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.10.062
关键词
2-arachidonoylglycerol; diacylglycerol lipase; monoacylglycerol lipase; CB1 cannabinoid receptor; glutamatergic synapse; hippocampus
资金
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund-Norwegian Financial Mechanism Joint Program [NNF 78918]
- European Research Council [243153]
- Nemzeti Kutatasi es Technologiai Hivatal (NKTH)-Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alapprogramok (OTKA) [CNK77793]
- European Union [LSHM-CT-2004-005166]
- EC [LSH-CT-2006-037315]
- National Institutes of Health [DA09158, MH54671, NS030549, DA011322, DA021696]
Clinical and experimental evidence demonstrates that endocannabinoids play either beneficial or adverse roles in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. Their medical significance may be best explained by the emerging concept that endocannabinoids are essential modulators of synaptic transmission throughout the central nervous system. However, the precise molecular architecture of the endocannabinoid signaling machinery in the human brain remains elusive. To address this issue, we investigated the synaptic distribution of metabolic enzymes for the most abundant endocannabinoid molecule, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), in the postmortem human hippocampus. Immunostaining for diacylglycerol lipase-alpha (DGL-alpha), the main synthesizing enzyme of 2-AG, resulted in a laminar pattern corresponding to the termination zones of glutamatergic pathways. The highest density of DGL-alpha-immunostaining was observed in strata radiatum and oriens of the cornu ammonis and in the inner third of stratum moleculare of the dentate gyrus. At higher magnification, DGL-alpha-immunopositive puncta were distributed throughout the neuropil outlining the immunonegative main dendrites of pyramidal and granule cells. Electron microscopic analysis revealed that this pattern was due to the accumulation of DGL-alpha in dendritic spine heads. Similar DGL-alpha-immunostaining pattern was also found in hippocampi of wild-type, but not of DGL-alpha knockout mice. Using two independent antibodies developed against monoacylglycerol lipase (MGL), the predominant enzyme inactivating 2-AG, immunostaining also revealed a laminar and punctate staining pattern. However, as observed previously in rodent hippocampus, MGL was enriched in axon terminals instead of postsynaptic structures at the ultrastructural level. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the post- and presynaptic segregation of primary enzymes responsible for synthesis and elimination of 2-AG, respectively, in the human hippocampus. Thus, molecular architecture of the endocannabinoid signaling machinery supports retrograde regulation of synaptic activity, and its similar blueprint in rodents and humans further indicates that 2-AG's physiological role as a negative feed-back signal is an evolutionarily conserved feature of excitatory synapses. (C) 2011 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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