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NEUROPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 7, Pages 1156-1167Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(99)00237-3
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adenosine; ATP; GABA; hippocampus; nerve terminals; protein kinase C; protein kinase A; calcium channels
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The hippocampal GABAegic system is assumed not to be a target for purine modulation. We have now confirmed that neither adenosine A(1) and A(3) receptor nor nucleotide P-2 or P-4 receptor activation modified the K+-evoked [K-3]GABA release from hippocampal synaptosomes. However, activation of adenosine A(2A) receptors with CGS 21680 (10 nM) or HENECA (30 nM) facilitated GABA release by 32% and 21%, respectively. These effects were prevented by the A(2A) antagonist, ZM 241385 (20 nM). A(2A) receptors may activate adenylate cyclase and protein kinase A since CGS 21680 (10 nM) facilitation was partially prevented by 8-bromo-cAMP (1 mM), forskolin (10 mu M) and HA-1004 (10 mu M). Protein kinase C may also be recruited, since chelerythrine (6 mu M) and phorbol 12,13-didecanoate (250 nM) attenuated CGS 21680 (10 nM) facilitation of [H-3]GABA release, omega-Agatoxin-IVA (200 nM) occluded CGS 21680 facilitation suggesting the involvement of P-type calcium channels. Thus, the adenosine A(2A) receptor system appears to be one of the first presynaptic neuromodulatory systems able to enhance the evoked release of GABA from hippocampal nerve terminals. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. AU rights reserved.
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