Barbiturate regulation of kinetic properties of the GABAA receptor channel of mouse spinal neurones in culture.

The Journal of Physiology
R L MacdonaldR E Twyman

Abstract

1. Barbiturate regulation of the kinetic properties of gamma-aminobutyric acidA (GABA) receptor channel chloride currents from somata of mouse spinal cord neurones were investigated using whole-cell and excised outside-out patch-clamp recording techniques. 2. GABA (2 microM), GABA (2 microM) plus phenobarbitone (PhB) (500 microM) and GABA (2 microM) plus pentobarbitone (PB) (50 microM), applied by pressure ejection from blunt perfusion micropipettes, evoked inward chloride currents when neurones or patches were voltage clamped at -75 mV and the chloride equilibrium potential was 0 mV. GABA receptor channel currents were increased by PhB and PB. 3. Single GABA receptor channel currents were recorded with a main conductance state of 27 pS and a less frequent subconductance state of 16.5 pS. The conductances of the two states were unchanged by the barbiturates. 4. The main conductance state kinetics were analysed. GABA alone or with the barbiturates gated the channel open singly and in groups of openings. 5. The barbiturates increased GABA receptor channel mean open time and shifted frequency histograms of channel open times to longer times. 6. Three exponential functions were required to fit the frequency histograms of GABA recep...Continue Reading

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