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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-18
pubmed:abstractText
The GABA transporter can reverse with depolarization, causing nonvesicular GABA release. However, this is thought to occur only under pathological conditions. Patch-clamp recordings were made from rat hippocampal neurons in primary cell cultures. Inhibition of GABA transaminase with the anticonvulsant gamma-vinyl GABA (vigabatrin; 0.05-100 microm) resulted in a large leak current that was blocked by bicuculline (50 microm). This leak current occurred in the absence of extracellular calcium and was blocked by the GABA transporter antagonist SKF-89976a (5 microm). These results indicate that vigabatrin induces spontaneous GABA efflux from neighboring cells via reversal of GABA transporters, subsequently leading to the stimulation of GABA(A) receptors on the recorded neuron. The leak current increased slowly over 4 d of treatment with 100 microm vigabatrin, at which time it reached an equivalent conductance of 9.0 +/- 4.9 nS. Blockade of glutamic acid decarboxylase with semicarbazide (2 mm) decreased the leak current that was induced by vigabatrin by 47%. In untreated cells, carrier-mediated GABA efflux did not occur spontaneously but was induced by an increase in [K(+)](o) from 3 to as little as 6 mm. Vigabatrin enhanced this depolarization-evoked nonvesicular GABA release and also enhanced the heteroexchange release of GABA induced by nipecotate. Thus, the GABA transporter normally operates near its equilibrium and can be easily induced to reverse by an increase in cytosolic [GABA] or mild depolarization. We propose that this transporter-mediated nonvesicular GABA release plays an important role in neuronal inhibition under both physiological and pathophysiological conditions and is the target of some anticonvulsants.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/4-Aminobutyrate Transaminase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Calcium, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/GABA Antagonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/GABA Plasma Membrane Transport..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Glutamate Decarboxylase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Transport Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/N-(4,4-diphenyl-3-butenyl)nipecotic..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nipecotic Acids, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Organic Anion Transporters, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Potassium, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, GABA-A, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Vigabatrin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/nipecotic acid
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2630-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-3-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11306616-4-Aminobutyrate Transaminase, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-GABA Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-GABA Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Glutamate Decarboxylase, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Neural Inhibition, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Nipecotic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Organic Anion Transporters, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Potassium, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Receptors, GABA-A, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-Vigabatrin, pubmed-meshheading:11306616-gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
GABA transaminase inhibition induces spontaneous and enhances depolarization-evoked GABA efflux via reversal of the GABA transporter.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8018, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't