Abstract
The uptake of radioactive γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and d-aspartate and the effect of SKF 89976-A, a non-substrate inhibitor of the GABA transporter, on this uptake have been investigated. Neuronal cultures from eight-day-old chick embryos grown for three or six days in vitro, were used as a model. For comparison, we also used the P2-fraction from rat. Neuronal cultures grown for three and six days expressed high-affinity uptake systems for [3H]GABA and for d-[3H]aspartate with an increasing Vmax during this period. The lipophilic non-substrate GABA uptake inhibitor, SKF 89976-A, inhibited transporter mediated uptake of GABA both in cell cultures from chicken, and in P2-fractions from rat. The results also showed that SKF 89976-A was a poor inhibitor of the uptake of d-aspartate. We found no non-saturable uptake of d-aspartate.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 333-337 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Neurochemical Research |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1992 |
Keywords
- GABA
- SKF 89976-A
- d-aspartate
- glutamate
- primary neuronal culture
- rat synaptosomes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience