Deficits in development of synaptic plasticity in rat dorsal striatum following prenatal and neonatal exposure to low-dose bisphenol A

Neuroscience. 2009 Mar 3;159(1):161-71. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.12.028. Epub 2008 Dec 27.

Abstract

Prenatal and neonatal exposure to relatively low-dose bisphenol-A (BPA, 20 microg/kg/day) causes hyper-locomotion of male rat offspring. This research investigated the developmental pattern of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity in dorsolateral (DL) striatum, a cellular basis for motor controlling, in male rat offspring with hyper-locomotion. High frequency stimulation (four-pulse bursts at 100 Hz) was undertaken to induce long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) in corticostriatal synapse during postnatal day (PD) 10-32. Herein, we show that in control rats HFS induces LTP during PD12-14 and LTD during PD24-32. Strikingly, the prenatal and neonatal exposure to low-dose BPA resulted in delay of LTP induction during PD21-32, showing a reversal of LTD induction. In addition, in PD28 BPA-rats basal population spike amplitude was increased with reduction of paired-pulse facilitation (PPF) compared to the same age control rats. Acute application of the dopamine 1 receptor (D1R) antagonist SCH23390 in slices obtained from PD28 BPA-rats inhibited not only the PS-potentiation and PPF-induction but also the induction of LTP. Furthermore, the dopamine 2 receptor (D2R) agonist quinpirole recovered the LTD induction in PD28 BPA-rats, which was D1R-dependent and metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent. In PD28 control rats, the blockade of D2R by l-sulpiride reversed the D1R- and mGluR-dependent LTD to short-term potentiation. Therefore, the findings provide functional evidence that prenatal and neonatal exposure to low-dose BPA causes deficits in development of LTP and LTD at DL-striatum via altering the function of dopaminergic receptors.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Animals
  • Animals, Newborn
  • Benzazepines / pharmacology
  • Benzhydryl Compounds
  • Corpus Striatum / drug effects
  • Corpus Striatum / growth & development*
  • Corpus Striatum / pathology*
  • Dopamine Agonists / pharmacology
  • Electric Stimulation / methods
  • Evoked Potentials / drug effects
  • Evoked Potentials / physiology
  • Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / pharmacology
  • Female
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Male
  • Neuronal Plasticity / drug effects*
  • Phenols*
  • Pregnancy
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / chemically induced*
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / pathology*
  • Pyridines / pharmacology
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Synapses / pathology*
  • Valine / analogs & derivatives
  • Valine / pharmacology

Substances

  • Benzazepines
  • Benzhydryl Compounds
  • Dopamine Agonists
  • Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
  • Phenols
  • Pyridines
  • SCH 23390
  • 2-amino-5-phosphopentanoic acid
  • 6-methyl-2-(phenylethynyl)pyridine
  • Valine
  • bisphenol A