title: [Current responses mediated by endogenous GABA(B) and GABA(C) receptors in Xenopus oocytes].
abstract: The properties of GABA-activated current in Xenopus oocytes and its underlying mechanism were studied using the two-electrode voltage-clamp technique. External application of GABA (10(-10) - 10(-3)mol/L) induced a concentration-dependent outward current in a proportion of oocytes (35.5%, 55/155). Selective GABA(A) receptor antagonist bicuculline (10(-5) mol/L) did not block the GABA-activated current (n=6). However, 2-hydroxysaclofen (10(-4) mol/L), a GABA(B) receptor antagonist, reversed the GABA-activated outward current to an inward current (n=9), which was abolished completely by application of I4AA (10(-5) mol/L), a GABA(C) receptor selective antagonist (n=6). In 20% (12/60) of oocytes, application of baclofen (10(-10) - 10(-4) mol/L), a GABA(B) receptor agonist, also induced a concentration-dependent outward current 2-Hydroxysaclofen at the concentrations of 3 x 10(-6), 3 x 10(-5) and 3 x 10(-4) mol/L blocked the baclofen(10(-5) mol/L)-activated outward current by (6.3+/-3.2) %, (44.1+/-2.2) %, and (86.0+/-1.6) %, respectively (n=6). The reversal potential for baclofen-activated current was around 96.8+/-7.2 mV (n=6), and the baclofen-activated current could be blocked by TEA (n=5) and Ba(2+) (n=5). These results suggest that there exist endogenous GABA receptors, GABA(B) receptors mediating a slow and sustained outward current and GABA(C) receptors mediating an inward current in follicular Xenopus oocytes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Z W
authors.initials: ZW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001418:Baclofen / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D018755:GABA Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D018756:GABA Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D058788:GABA-B Receptor Antagonists; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009865:Oocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D018079:Receptors, GABA / Q000502:physiology*; D018080:Receptors, GABA-B / Q000502:physiology*; D014981:Xenopus
chemical_list: D018755:GABA Agonists; D018756:GABA Antagonists; D058788:GABA-B Receptor Antagonists; D018079:Receptors, GABA; D018080:Receptors, GABA-B; D001418:Baclofen; C057491:2-hydroxysaclofen