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Effects of two volatile anesthetics and a volatile convulsant on the excitatory and inhibitory amino acid responses in dissociated CNS neurons of the rat

M. Wakamori, Y. Ikemoto and N. Akaike
Department of Neurophysiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

1. Effects of two volatile anesthetics [halothane (Hal) and enflurane (Enf)] and a volatile convulsant [hexafluorodiethyl ether (HFE)] on amino acid-induced membrane currents in neurons dissociated from the nucleus tractus solitarius of the rat were examined. The dissociated neurons were voltage clamped in the whole-cell mode of the patch-clamp technique. All drugs were applied with a microperfusion system, termed the "Y-tube" method. 2. The glutamate (Glu)-induced excitatory response was slightly reduced by both the anesthetics. The responses to three agonists at Glu receptor were depressed by Hal (10(-3) M) in the rank order of quisqualate greater than N-methyl-D-aspartate greater than kainate. HFE slightly increased the Glu response at a high concentration of 2 x 10(-3) M. 3. The gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-induced chloride current (ICl) was enhanced by both anesthetics. The dissociation constant (Kd) for the enhancement was 2.3 x 10(-4) M for Hal and 2.1 x 10(-4) M for Enf, and the Hill coefficient was 1.6 for Hal and 1.5 for Enf. HFE depressed the GABA response with a Kd of 8.7 x 10(-5) M and a Hill coefficient of 0.84. 4. Hal (10(-3) M) and Enf (10(-3) M) decreased the Kd of the GABA concentration-response curve from 3.5 x 10(-6) to 10(-6) and 1.9 x 10(-6) M, respectively, without changing the maximum response or the Hill coefficient (1.5). In the presence of HFE (10(-4) M), the Kd was increased to 1.4 x 10(-5) M and the Hill coefficient was slightly changed to 1.2.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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