Affiliation:
1. Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract
Our data indicate the significant intrinsic efficacy of GABAB-receptors in rat brain cortex already at birth (PD1, PD2). Subsequently, baclofen- and SKF97541-stimulated G-protein activity, measured by agonist-stimulated, high-affinity [35S]GTPγS binding assay, was increased; the highest level of both baclofen and SKF97541-stimulated [35S]GTPγS binding was detected between PD10 and PD15. In older rats, baclofen- and SKF97541-stimulated [35S]GTPγS binding was continuously decreased so, that the level in adult, 90-days old animals, was not different from that in newborn animals. The potency of G-protein response to baclofen (characterized by EC50 values) was also high at birth but unchanged by further postnatal development. An individual variance among different agonists was observed in this respect as the potency of SKF97541 response was decreased between the birth and adulthood. Accordingly, the highest plasma membrane density of GABAB-R, determined by saturation binding assay with antagonist [3H]CGP54626, was measured in 1-day old animals (2.27±0.08 pmol · mg-1). The further development was reflected in a decrease of [3H]CGP54626 binding as the Bmax values of 1.38±0.05 and 0.93±0.04 pmol · mg-1 were determined in PM isolated from 13- and 90-days old rats, respectively.
Publisher
Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Subject
General Medicine,Physiology
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