The physiological and biochemical role of the ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) shunt pathway in green pea seedlings (Pisum sativum L.) was studied response to soil water holding capacity levels: 80%, 60%, 40%, 20%, 10% grown under continuous light at 25 °C for 7 days 14 days, separately. Characterization seeds germination pattern, growth (plant height, fresh dry weight, chlorophyll contents), GABA me...

Behavioral flexibility and goal-directed behavior heavily depend on fronto-striatal networks. Within these circuits, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) glutamate play an important role in (motor) response inhibition, but it has remained largely unclear whether they are also relevant for cognitive inhibition. We hence investigated the functional of transmitters inhibition during flexibility. Healthy...

Chile es uno de los países Latinoamérica que exhibe un mayor envejecimiento poblacional, por lo necesario visualizar distintas herramientas direccionen estilos vida saludables en esta etapa la trayectoria vital. Las Guías Alimentarias Basadas Alimentos (GABA) entregan recomendaciones permiten mejorar calidad personas mayores. Por anterior, el objetivo del estudio fue determinar nivel cumplim...

The whole-cell patch-clamp method was used to study the development of functional GABA receptors in cortical neurons dissociated from embryonic turtles. GABA elicited an increase in membrane conductance, even from cells obtained from the earliest stages of corticogenesis. The GABA-mediated conductance had a mean value 7.4 times greater than membrane 'leak' conductance and increased with develop...

GABA receptor (GABAR) types C (GABACR) and A (GABAAR) are both GABA-gated chloride channels that are distinguished by their distinct competitive antagonist properties. The structural mechanism underlying these distinct properties is not well understood. In this study, using previously identified binding residues as a guide, we made individual or combined mutations of nine binding residues in th...

Pretreatment with 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), a precursor of 5-HT, antagonised while pretreatment with p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA), a 5-HT depletor, potentiated the myoclonus induced by picrotoxin, a GABA antagonist. Pretreatment with aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA), a GABA transaminase inhibitor, antagonised picrotoxin-induced myoclonus. The combined effect of the least protective doses of AOAA a...

GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian CNS. GABA in the brain is commonly associated with a fast, point-to-point form of signalling called synaptic transmission (phasic inhibition), but there is growing evidence that GABA participates in another, slower and more diffuse form of signalling often referred to as tonic inhibition. Unresolved questions regarding tonic neuronal...

Subacute and chronic changes in tonic GABAergic inhibition occur in human and experimental epilepsy. Less is known about how tonic inhibition is modulated over shorter time frames (seconds). We measured endogenous tonic GABA currents from cultured rat hippocampal neurons to evaluate how they are affected by 1) transient increases in extracellular GABA concentration ([GABA]), 2) transient postsy...

glutamate decarboxylase enzyme produces γ-aminobutyric acid (gaba) in a non-reversible decarboxylation reaction of glutamate. gaba is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter of the brain and it is also present at high concentration in other organs such as pancreatic islets. gaba has effects on blood pressure, diabetes, inflammation, sleeplessness and depression. some bacteria such as lactobacillus ...

We have shown that fluorescent, 7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl amino (NBD)-conjugated neurosteroid analogs photopotentiate GABA(A) receptor function. These compounds seem to photosensitize a modification of receptor function, resulting in long-lived increases in responses to exogenous or synaptic GABA. Here we extend this work to examine the effectiveness of different fluorophore positions, c...