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Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2000 Jul;66(3):645-51.
Effects of buspirone, diazepam, and zolpidem on open field behavior, and brain [3H]muscimol binding after buspirone pretreatment.
Siemiatkowski M, Sienkiewicz-Jarosz H, Czlonkowska AI, Bidzinski A, Plaznik A.
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 1/9, 02-957, Warsaw, Poland.
The effects of 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist buspirone, a nonselective (diazepam), and a selective (zolpidem) GABA(A) receptor agonist were compared in the open field test of neophobia. Unhabituated rats were pretreated with the drugs once, prior to a first exposure to the open field, and their behavior was recorded both during this test and during a second trial 24 h later. It has been hypothesized that the decrease in exploratory activity observed during the second test session may be considered an adaptive reaction to the first day aversive experience (neophobia). If so, a selective modulation of 5-HT and GABA systems activity during the test could bring about significant changes in animal behavior on the retest. Buspirone at the lowest dose of 0.3 mg/kg revealed anxiolytic-like properties on the first day, whereas the action of diazepam and zolpidem was modulated by the dose-related sedative effect. At the dose of 2.4 mg/kg buspirone elicited delayed in time anxiolytic-like action, i.e., produced the antithigmotactic effect during the retrial 24 h later. Diazepam and zolpidem failed to exhibit similar profile of action. Autoradiography of [3H]muscimol binding after pretreatment of rats with buspirone showed a significant increase in the selective radioligand binding within the frontal cortex and a similar, near-significant tendency in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. The behavioral data validate buspirone as important drug for the treatment of anxiety disorders, devoid of disruptive influence on motor and cognitive processes. The open field test, as modified by us, appeared sensitive in distinguishing the behavioral profiles of action of different anxiolytic compounds, including 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist. The present results support the assumption that reduced turnover of 5-HT due to stimulation of 5-HT(1A) autoreceptors, may bring about changes in GABA(A) receptor system activity, in some brain structures, leading to the anxiolytic effect.
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J Neurochem. 2000 Aug;75(2):782-7.
Benzodiazepine-sensitive GABA(A) receptors limit the activity of the NMDA/NO/cyclic GMP pathway: a microdialysis study in the cerebellum of freely moving rats.
Fedele E, Ansaldo MA, Varnier G, Raiteri M.
Sezione di Farmacologia e Tossicologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Universita di Genova, Genova, Italy.
In the cerebellum, infusion of NMDA (200 microM) for 20 min evoked a marked (200%) increase of extracellular cyclic GMP (cGMP) levels. The selective GABA(A) receptor agonist muscimol (0.01-100 microM) was able to counteract the NMDA effect with an EC(50) of 0.65 microM; the inhibitory effect of muscimol (10 microM) was prevented by bicuculline (50 microM). Diazepam (10 microM) significantly potentiated the muscimol (1 microM) inhibition; furthermore, when coinfused with 0.1 microM muscimol (a concentration not affecting, on its own, the cGMP response to NMDA), diazepam (10 microM) reduced the NMDA effect. Similar results were obtained with zolpidem (0.1-1 microM). Finally, local infusion of the benzodiazepine site antagonist flumazenil (10 microM), together with muscimol and diazepam, almost completely restored the effect of NMDA on extracellular cGMP levels. It is concluded that GABA(A) receptors potently control the NMDA/nitric oxide/cGMP pathway in the cerebellum in vivo. In terms of the alpha subunit composition, we can deduce that the cerebellar GABA(A) receptor does not contain alpha(6) or beta(4) subunits because it is diazepam-sensitive. Moreover, the observation that zolpidem is active at a rather low concentration, in combination with localization studies present in the literature, tend to exclude the presence of alpha(5) subunits in the receptor composition and suggest the involvement of an alpha(1) subunit.
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Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 1999 Apr 6;67(1):194-9.
Prevalence of the GABAA receptor assemblies containing alpha1-subunit in the rat cerebellum and cerebral cortex as determined by immunoprecipitation: lack of modulation by chronic ethanol administration.
Mehta AK, Ticku MK.
Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284-7764, USA.
The anti-alpha1 antibody elicited higher immunoprecipitation (%) values of the [3H]flunitrazepam and [3H]muscimol binding activity in the rat cerebellum vs. cerebral cortex, whereas immunoprecipitation values for [3H]Ro 15-4513 and [3H]zolpidem were comparable in these brain regions. Chronic ethanol administration neither changed the radioligand binding to the immunoprecipitated pellet nor the percentage immunoprecip-itation values, thereby indicating that chronic ethanol did not result in down-regulation of the GABAA receptor assemblies containing alpha1-subunit. Copyright 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.
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Neurosci Lett. 2000 Sep 8;291(1):49-53.
Distribution of the gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) receptor complex alpha 5 subunit in chick brain. An immunocytochemical and autoradiographic study.
Aller MI, Paniagua MA, Gimenes CC, Araujo F, Vitorica J, Fernandez-Lopez A.
Departamento Biologia Celular y Anatomia, Universidad de Leon, Leon, Spain.
This work reports the distribution of the gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) (GABA(A)) receptor complex alpha5 subunit in the chick using an antibody raised against this subunit in the rat, an immunoprecipitation study and a comparative autoradiographic study using [(3)H]flunitrazepam in the presence of 1 microM zolpidem, which is considered to bind only to those areas presenting the alpha5 subunit. The specificity of the antibody for the chick GABA(A) receptor complex alpha5 subunit is supported by the similar bands obtained by Western blotting from rat and chick, the immunoprecipitation study and the general agreement in the distribution and pattern of labelling of this antibody in both species. The immunocytochemical and autoradiographic distributions in both the chick and rat are compared and some areas with disagreement between these distributions are discussed. The general conclusion is that the alpha5 subunit of the GABA(A) complex receptor seems to have been conserved along evolution.
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Epilepsia. 2000;41 Suppl 6:S82-5.
Altered receptor subunit expression in rat neocortical malformations.
Hablitz JJ, DeFazio RA.
Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA. hablitz
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