Effects of cimetidine-like drugs on recombinant GABAA receptors.

Abstract:

:Even though conventional systemic doses of cimetidine and other histamine H(2) antagonists display minimal brain penetration, central nervous system (CNS) effects (including seizures and analgesia) have been reported after administration of these drugs in animals and man. To test the hypothesis that cimetidine-like drugs produce these CNS effects via inhibition of GABA(A) receptors, the actions of these drugs were studied on seven different, precisely-defined rat recombinant GABA(A) receptors using whole-cell patch clamp recordings. The H(2) antagonists famotidine and tiotidine produced competitive and reversible inhibition of GABA-evoked currents in HEK293 cells transfected with various GABA(A) receptor subunits (IC(50) values were between 10-50 microM). In contrast, the H(2) antagonist ranitidine and the cimetidine congener improgan had very weak (if any) effects (IC(50) > 50 microM). Since the concentrations of cimetidine-like drugs required to inhibit GABA(A) receptors in vitro (greater than 50 microM) are considerably higher than those found during analgesia and/or seizures (1-2 microM), the present results suggest that cimetidine-like drugs do not appear to produce seizures or analgesia by directly inhibiting GABA(A) receptors.

journal_name

Life Sci

journal_title

Life sciences

authors

Cannon KE,Fleck MW,Hough LB

doi

10.1016/j.lfs.2004.05.020

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-10-08 00:00:00

pages

2551-8

issue

21

eissn

0024-3205

issn

1879-0631

pii

S0024-3205(04)00661-7

journal_volume

75

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