Interaction of pentobarbitone and gamma-aminobutyric acid on mammalian sympathetic ganglion cells.

Abstract:

:1. Interactions of bath-applied pentobarbitone and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on neurones in isolated superior cervical ganglia of the rat have been examined with intracellular microelectrodes. 2. Pentobarbitone itself (30 micrometer-1 mM) showed no clear or consistent GABA-like effects: changes in resting input conductance and membrane potential were small and variable. 3. Pentobarbitone (100 micrometer) strikingly enhanced the conductance increases produced by GABA and 3-aminopropanesulphonic acid, and reversed the depression of GABA-evoked responses by bicuculline. 4. It is concluded that reversal of bicuculline action at the membrane conductance level might be explained by augmentation of GABA-action. This augmentation cannot be attributed to 'partial agonist' properties of pentobarbitone or to interference with glial transport processes.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

authors

Brown DA,Constanti A

doi

10.1111/j.1476-5381.1978.tb07791.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1978-05-01 00:00:00

pages

217-24

issue

1

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

63

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