Seizures induced by alpha-guanidinoglutaric acid, a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, are controlled by L-arginine.
We evaluated the effect of manipulation of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis on epileptiform discharges recorded from immobilized rats during intracerebroventricular injection of alpha-guanidinoglutaric acid (GGA), an endogenous convulsant and a NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor, alone or in combined with a NOS substrate, l-arginine (ARG). GGA alone, or combined with 50 mM ARG, resulted in prolonged electrographical seizures while co-injection of either 100 or 200 mM of ARG with GGA caused significantly protection. These data show that ARG inhibited epileptiform discharges in a dose-dependent fashion, suggesting that the discharges initiated by inhibition of NOS with the intrinsic convulsant GGA are abated by increasing the concentration of the NOS substrate ARG.
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Department of Neuroscience, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
Yokoi
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Kabuto
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Willmore
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Mori
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D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005977:Glutarates; D008297:Male; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012640:Seizures / Q000139:chemically induced*
D005977:Glutarates; C028262:alpha-guanidinoglutaric acid; D001120:Arginine; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase