Schild Regression Analysis of Antidepressant and Bicuculline Antagonist Effects at the GABAA Receptor

Autor:	Ryan Kopp, Ewa Malatynska, Andrew Yochum, Glenda Crites, Monique L. Giroux, Steven C. Dilsaver
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Pharmacology medicine.medical_specialty business.industry GABAA receptor Antagonist General Medicine Amoxapine Bicuculline Mianserin Schild regression Endocrinology Internal medicine medicine Antidepressant Amitriptyline business medicine.drug
Zdroj:	Pharmacology. 57:117-123
ISSN:	1423-0313 0031-7012
DOI:	10.1159/000028232
Popis:	We showed previously that antidepressants inhibit GABA-stimulated 36Cl– uptake in rat cerebral cortex. In this study Schild analysis was used to determine if antidepressants are competitive antagonists or allosteric modulators at GABAA receptors. GABA concentration-response curves for 36Cl– uptake in rat cerebral cortex were generated in the absence or presence of different concentrations of the following antidepressants: amitriptyline, amoxapine, mianserin, and also the GABAA receptor antagonist, bicuculline. The pA2 values for amitriptyline, amoxapine, mianserin, and bicuculline were 4.2 ± 0.2, 5.5 ± 0.3, 4.4 ± 0.1 and 6.2 ± 0.6, respectively. The respective Schild slope values were 0.7 ± 0.1, 0.6 ± 0.03, 0.7 ± 0.2 and 1.0 ± 0.3. All slope values for antidepressants differed from unity. The maximum effect produced by GABA to stimulate chloride influx was decreased by both antidepressants and bicuculline. It is concluded that neither the antidepressants studied nor bicuculline are pure competitive GABA antagonists at the GABAA receptor-chloride-ionophore complex in the rat cerebral cortex.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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