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Mechanism of modulation of GABA-activated current by internal calcium in rat central neurons
1A.A. Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev.
Brain Research
|April 19, 1991
Abstract:
GABA-activated currents in Purkinje cells isolated from rat cerebellum were investigated. Increase of intracellular Ca2+ in the physiological range of concentrations caused a decrease in GABA-activated chloride currents. This effect resulted from a decrease of both the maximal values of GABA-activated currents and possibly from the affinity of GABAA receptors. Therefore, the mechanism of Ca2+ effect on GABAA receptors in central rat neurons differs from that in bullfrog sensory neurons.