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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroscience
    • Cellular Neuroscience
    • Synaptic Physiology

    Background:

    • GABAergic signaling is crucial for neural inhibition.
    • Understanding extracellular GABA dynamics is key to comprehending neural control.
    • Previous estimates of GABA persistence may reflect receptor properties, not extracellular dynamics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the real-time dynamics of extracellular GABA in the mouse cerebral cortex.
    • To differentiate between diffusion and transporter-mediated clearance of GABA.
    • To understand how extracellular GABA accumulation influences synaptic and extrasynaptic receptors.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized the fluorescent GABA sensor, iGABASnFr.
    • Performed experiments in the mouse cerebral cortex.
    • Measured GABA dispersion and clearance rates.

    Main Results:

    • GABA rapidly disperses from release sites via diffusion within tens of milliseconds.
    • GABA transporters (GATs) require hundreds of milliseconds to clear extracellular GABA, especially at high release densities.
    • Extracellular GABA accumulates significantly, impacting both synaptic and extrasynaptic GABA receptors.

    Conclusions:

    • A disconnect exists between rapidly depressing phasic inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) and accumulating extracellular GABA.
    • Extracellular GABA accumulation can modulate network activity through hetero-synaptic effects on receptors.
    • New insights into GABAergic inhibition mechanisms and their role in network function are provided.