A patch-clamp study of GABA- and strychnine-sensitive glycine-activated currents in post-natal tissue-cultured hippocampal neurons - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1992 Nov 23;250(1328):99-105.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.1992.0136.

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A patch-clamp study of GABA- and strychnine-sensitive glycine-activated currents in post-natal tissue-cultured hippocampal neurons

K Fatima-Shad et al. Proc Biol Sci. 1992.

Abstract

GABA- and strychnine-sensitive glycine-activated currents in post-natal tissue-cultured hippocampal neurons were studied by using patch-clamp techniques. Current-voltage relations for both agonists in symmetrical Cl- solutions showed outward rectification. Strychnine-sensitive glycine-activated currents have not been studied in detail before in post-natal tissue-cultured hippocampal neurons. Partial desensitization of whole-cell currents was observed in symmetrical Cl- solutions during bath application of GABA- and glycine. In F-/Cl- solutions, both agonists gave a PF/Pcl value of about 0.06. The reversal potentials in mixtures of Cl- and SO4(2-) solutions were close to the equilibrium potentials of Cl- in the presence of both GABA and glycine. Single channels in inside-out excised patches with 2 mumol l-1 GABA and 5 mumol l-1 glycine in the pipette showed outward current rectification. The dose-response curves for GABA and glycine gave Kd values of 52 and 61 mumol l-1, respectively, and Hill coefficients close to 2. GABA and glycine binding were competitively blocked by their respective antagonists (bicuculline and strychnine). The similarities between GABA- and glycine-activated currents and the response in a combination of saturating concentrations of both GABA and glycine implied that the two agonists activated comparable numbers of anatomically distinct channels with very similar permeation properties.

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