title: Effect of amygdaloid kindling on the content and release of amino acids from the amygdaloid complex: in vivo and in vitro studies.
abstract: The tissue content and the interstitial fluid levels of glutamate, aspartate, GABA, glutamine, glycine, and serine were studied in amygdaloid-kindled rat brain. Interstitial levels were studied in vivo before and during stage 5 full limbic seizures using microdialysis. Slices of amygdala from kindled and sham-operated animals were used to study baseline and KCl-evoked release in vitro. The contents of these amino acids were measured in slices of amygdala, hippocampus, and cerebral cortex from kindled and sham-operated animals. Kindled brains showed two- to threefold higher levels of glutamate, aspartate, and GABA and 12-fold higher levels of glutamine than sham-operated controls. Correlating with this, interstitial fluid levels of glutamate were two- to threefold higher from kindled amygdala than from control both in vivo (microdialysis) and in vitro (superfusion). GABA levels in interstitial fluid from kindled amygdala were reduced by 67% compared with control amygdala.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science, London, England, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaura
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Bradford
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Croucher
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Hughes
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D000679:Amygdala / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism; D003956:Dialysis; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D005973:Glutamine / Q000378:metabolism; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007696:Kindling, Neurologic; D008297:Male; D011189:Potassium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012640:Seizures / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D005973:Glutamine; D001224:Aspartic Acid; D018698:Glutamic Acid; D011189:Potassium Chloride