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The medial septal area of conscious rats was stimulated through previously implanted electrodes at a frequency of 7.7 Hz for 20 min each day for 7 days to evoke rhythmic slow activity in CA1 at a similar frequency to spontaneous theta. Two weeks later in the anaesthetized rats the effects of a single subcutaneous injection of nicotine (0.4 mg/kg) on fEPSPs, evoked in the dentate gyrus by separate stimulation of the MPP and LPP, were studied and compared with those obtained in controls. Nicotine increased the firing of locus coeruleus neurons and the slope of the fEPSPs evoked by LPP stimulation, but not by MPP stimulation. Prior theta driving considerably increased the effect of nicotine on the responses evoked by stimulation of the MPP and abolished the nicotine-induced potentiation of the responses evoked by stimulation of the LPP. The results are attributed to theta driving increasing the amount of noradrenaline released by nicotine and to noradrenaline producing a β-adrenoceptor long-lasting potentiation at the medial perforant path synapse and a long-lasting depression at the lateral perforant path synapse.
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Published in Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel’nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 257–263, March–April, 2006.
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Markevich, V.A., Grigoryan, G.A., Dawe, G.S. et al. Theta driving both inhibits and potentiates the effects of nicotine on dentate gyrus responses. Neurosci Behav Physiol 37, 403–409 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-007-0027-2
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