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ArticleMolecular pharmacology2015

Synaptic-type α1β2γ2L GABAA receptors produce large persistent currents in the presence of ambient GABA and anesthetic drugs.

Ping Li, Gustav Akk

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Article in Molecular pharmacology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Electrophysiology of ionotropic GABA receptors.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
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  4. Comparison of αβδ and αβγ GABAPharmacological research · 2018
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  7. Context-Dependent Modulation of GABAAR-Mediated Tonic Currents.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution.

Ping LiDepartment of Anesthesiology (P.L., G.A.) and the Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research (G.A.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Gustav AkkDepartment of Anesthesiology (P.L., G.A.) and the Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research (G.A.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri akk@morpheus.wustl.edu.
Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research

Funding

STRUCTURE/ACTIVITY STUDIES OF NEUROSTEROID ANALOGUESP01GM047969 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI COVEY, DOUGLAS F · 1992 to 2011
$18.7M
SYNERGISTIC ACTIONS OF INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETICSR01GM108580 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI AKK, GUSTAV · 2014 to 2021
$2.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM047969NIGMS NIH HHS P01-GM047969NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108580NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM108580
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synaptic GABAA receptors respond to synaptically released GABA and are considered to be unaffected by the low levels of ambient transmitter in the brain. We show that synaptic-type α1β2γ2L GABAA receptors expressed in HEK293 cells respond with large steady-state currents to combinations of a low concentration (0.5 μM) of GABA and clinically used GABAergic modulators propofol, etomidate, or pentobarbital or the steroid alphaxalone. At a maximally effective concentration of modulator, the current levels at the end of 2-minute applications of drug combinations were >10% of the peak response to saturating GABA. In the absence of modulators, 0.5 μM GABA generated a steady-state response of 1% of the peak response to saturating GABA. The concentration-response curves for enhancement of steady-state currents by propofol, etomidate, pentobarbital, or alphaxalone were at similar or lower drug concentrations compared with concentration-response relationships for enhancement of peak responses. We propose that modulation of tonically activated synaptic-type GABAA receptors contributes to the clinical actions of sedative drugs.

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AnestheticsAnimalsCell LineChromosome PairingEtomidategamma-Aminobutyric AcidHEK293 CellsHumansPentobarbitalPregnanedionesPropofolRatsReceptors, GABA-AalphaxaloneAnestheticsEtomidategamma-Aminobutyric AcidPentobarbitalPregnanedionesPropofolReceptors, GABA-A

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PMID25667223
PMCPMC4407730
OpenAlexW2109793036

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