| Literature DB >> 6266847 |
F Leeb-Lundberg, A Snowman, R W Olsen.
Abstract
Unlike the anesthetic barbiturate pentobarbital and the anxiolytic pyrazolopyridine etazolate, which enhance [3H]diazepam binding to rat brain membranes, the anticonvulsant barbiturates phenobarbital and metharbital, and also chlormethiazole, at therapeutic concentrations (10-1000 muM), do not stimulate [3H]diazepam binding, but instead block the enhancement by both pentobarbital and etazolate. The same anticonvulsants at similar concentrations inhibit [3H]alpha-dihydropicrotoxinin (DHP) binding suggesting that these anticonvulsants compete for the same receptor sites as pentobarbital and etazolate, designated the barbiturate-picrotoxinin receptor component of the benzodiazepine-GABA receptor complex.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 6266847 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(81)90309-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Pharmacol ISSN: 0014-2999 Impact factor: 4.432