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  • Title: A dual mechanism for the anticonvulsant action of aminooxyacetic acid.
    Author: Wood JD, Peesker SJ.
    Journal: Can J Physiol Pharmacol; 1976 Aug; 54(4):534-40. PubMed ID: 974880.
    Abstract:
    The intramuscular injection of aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA) into mice elevated the concentration of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain, inhibited glutamic acid decarboxylase activity and delayed the onset of isonicotinic acid hydrazide induced seizures. Analyses of these results and of those obtained previously by the authors and other workers indicated that the anticonvulsant action of AOAA involved two mechanisms. One, involving GABA metabolism, was most effective 6 h after AOAA administration, and the other, not involving GABA, was maximally effective 1.5 h after AOAA injection and was completely absent after 6 h. Depending on the convulsant agent under study, the mechanism of the anticonvulsant action of AOAA was purely of the GABA type, purely of the non-GABA type or a combination of both types.
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