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  • Title: Classification of some GABA antagonists with regard to site of action and potency in slices of rat cuneate nucleus.
    Author: Simmonds MA.
    Journal: Eur J Pharmacol; 1982 Jun 04; 80(4):347-58. PubMed ID: 6286323.
    Abstract:
    Compounds reported to be GABA antagonists have been studied quantitatively on dorsal funiculus fibres and terminals in the rat cuneate nucleus in vitro. The potencies of the antagonists against the GABA analogue muscimol were determined as pA2 values. Distinction was made between three different sites of antagonist action within the GABA receptor and ionophore complex. Competitive antagonists, presumed to act at the GABA receptor, and their pA2 values were bicuculline (5.98), bicuculline methochloride (5.88), strychnine (5.29) and tubocurarine (4.95). Antagonists which were not competitive and acted predominantly at the 'picrotoxin site' on the ionophore were picrotoxin (6.19), picrotoxinin (6.03), isopropylbicyclophosphate (5.82) and leptazol (2.89). A third type of antagonism was shown by frusemide. Attention is drawn to the picrotoxin site and its likely importance in the regulation of GABA-mediated inhibition by drugs.
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