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Abstract
The interaction of ethanol with glycine at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-activated ion channel was investigated in voltage-clamped rat cultured hippocampal neurons. As shown previously, glycine increased, and ethanol inhibited, the NMDA-activated current in these cells. Concentration-response data for glycine (0.1-100 microM) indicate that the inhibition of NMDA-activated current by ethanol does not involve a competitive interaction with glycine. Thus, ethanol appears to inhibit NMDA-activated current at a locus different from the glycine modulatory site.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1377089 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(92)90674-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res ISSN: 0006-8993 Impact factor: 3.252