title: Pre- and postsynaptic effects of taurine and GABA in the cockroach central nervous system.
abstract: Taurine resembles GABA in its synaptic effects in the cockroach cercal nerve giant fiber synapse where it exerts a depressant action upon synaptic transmission. Both taurine and GABA produce an increased conductance of pre- and postsynaptic membranes through changes in the permeability of chloride ions.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000502:physiology*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D010526:Periplaneta / Q000502:physiology*; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*; D013570:Synaptic Membranes / Q000502:physiology; D013654:Taurine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D013654:Taurine; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid