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Subunit-specific potentiation of recombinant N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors by histamine.

K Williams
Molecular Pharmacology September 1994, 46 (3) 531-541;
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Histamine has numerous functions in the brain and has recently been shown to modulate responses of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors on hippocampal neurons by a mechanism that does not involve classical histamine receptors. In the present work, voltage-clamp recording was used to study the effects of histamine on recombinant NMDA receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes, to determine whether histamine acts directly on NMDA receptors and to investigate the subunit specificity of the effects of histamine. Histamine potentiated responses to NMDA at heteromeric NR1/NR2 receptors containing splice variants of the NR1 subunit (NR1A or NR1E) that lack the amino-terminal insert, together with the NR2B subunit but not the NR2A or NR2C subunit. Stimulation by histamine (EC50 = 10 microM) had a novel profile, involving a rapid increase in the magnitude of NMDA-induced currents followed by slow (approximately 1-min) desensitization to a steady state level. Desensitization of the response to histamine was time dependent and could occur in the absence of receptor activation by NMDA. Stimulation by histamine was dependent on the concentration of agonist used to activate NR1A/NR2B receptors and was seen with high but not low concentrations of NMDA and glutamate. The effect of histamine was not blocked by classical histamine receptor antagonists but was mimicked by the histamine metabolite 1-methylhistamine. At a high concentration (1 microM) histamine produced a voltage-dependent inhibition of NMDA currents at NR1A/NR2B receptors and at receptors (NR1B/NR2B) that are not sensitive to stimulation by histamine. The results suggest that histamine acts directly at a novel recognition site on some subtypes of NMDA receptors to increase their activity.

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Subunit-specific potentiation of recombinant N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors by histamine.

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