Differential effects of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers on the GABA receptor subunits expressed in human embryonic kidney cell line

Brain Research
K NagataT Narahashi

Abstract

We have recently demonstrated by patch clamp experiments that the four isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-HCH insecticides, modulated the kinetics of the GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. The present paper reports the differential effects of HCH isomers of the GABA-induced chloride currents in three combinations of alpha, beta and gamma subunits of GABAA receptor expressed in human embryonic kidney cells. When co-applied with GABA, gamma-HCH strongly suppressed the peak amplitude of GABA-induced current, and delta-HCH strongly enhanced it in the alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s, alpha 1 beta 2, alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s combinations in a dose-dependent manner. There was little or no difference in the dose dependence of the effects between gamma- and delta-HCH in any of the three subunit combinations. However, alpha- and beta-HCH showed differential effects on GABA-induced chloride currents in the three subunit combinations tested. alpha-HCH showed enhancing effects on the peak current in alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s, small enhancing effects on alpha 1 beta 2, and biphasic effects on alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s subunit combinations. beta-HCH had little or no effect on t...Continue Reading

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