THE MECHANISM OF ACTION AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY OF THE ANTICONVULSANT NMDA ANTAGONIST MK-801 - A VOLTAGE CLAMP STUDY ON NEURONAL CELLS IN CULTURE
THE MECHANISM OF ACTION AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY OF THE ANTICONVULSANT NMDA ANTAGONIST MK-801 - A VOLTAGE CLAMP STUDY ON NEURONAL CELLS IN CULTURE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1476-5381.1989.tb11841.x
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发表时间:
1989-02-01
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
LAMBERT, JJ
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作者:
HALLIWELL, RF;PETERS, JA;LAMBERT, JJ
Some possible molecular mechanisms of action of the anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and neuroprotective agent MK-801 have been examined in ''whole-cell'' voltage clamp recordings performed on rat hippocampal and cortical neurones, bovine adrenomedullary chromaffin cells and N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells maintained in cell culture. Transmembrane currents recorded from rat hippocampal and cortical neurones in response to locally applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) were antagonized by MK-801 (0.1-3.0 .mu.M). Blockade was use-dependent, and little influenced by transmembrane potential. MK-801 (3 .mu.M) had no effect on currents evoked by kainate (100 .mu.M). The antagonism of NMDA-induced currents by MK-801 was only slowly and incompletely reversed when the cell membrane potential was clamped at -60 mV during washout. Prolonged applications of NMDA at +40, but not -60 mV during washout, markedly accelerated recovery from block. In contrast to MK-801, ketamine (10 .mu.M) blocked NMDA-induced currents in a voltage-dependent manner. Blockade increased with membrane hyperpolarization and was completely reversible upon washout. MK-801 (1-10 .mu.M) produced a voltage- and concentration-dependent block of membrane currents elicited by ionophoretically applied acetylcholine (ACh) recovered from bovine chromaffin cells. The block was readily reversible upon washout. .gamma.-Aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptor-mediated chloride currents of chromaffin cells were unaffected by MK-801 (1-100 .mu.M). In contrast, such currents were potentiated by diazepam (1 .mu.M). MK-801 (100 .mu.M) had no effect on currents evoked by GABA on hippocampal neurones. MK-801 (10 .mu.M) had little effect on membrane currents recorded from N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells in response to ionophoretically applied 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). Such currents were antagonized by the 5-HT3 receptor antagonist GR 38032F (1 nM) also by MN-801 at high concentration (100 .mu.M). Voltage-activated, tetrodotoxin-sensitive, sodium currents of chromaffin cells were unaffected by 10 .mu.M MK-801. However, at a relatively high concentration (100 .mu.M), MK-801 reduced the amplitude of such currents to approximately 77% of control. The relevance of the present results to the central actions of MK-801 is discussed.