Regional distribution and extracellular levels of amino acids in rat central nervous system
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- DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1986.tb07938.x
Regional distribution and extracellular levels of amino acids in rat central nervous system
Abstract
The extracellular levels of aspartate, glutamate, serine, glutamine, glycine, alanine and GABA were studied in vivo with the microdialysis technique in 15 different regions of the rat brain. The effect of high K+ on the overflow of these amino acids was also studied. These results were compared with those from a regional dissection of 17 brain regions in which the tissue content of the same amino acids was determined. The in vivo data showed an unevenly distributed KCl response of aspartate, glutamate, taurine and GABA, all of which are putative neurotransmitters. It was not possible to predict the response to high K+ from the magnitude of the unstimulated overflow. Glutamine overflow was inversely related to that of glutamate during the high K+ stimulus, which is consistent with glutamine being the main precursor of glutamate. Only for GABA and alanine was overflow proportional to the tissue level in the different regions studied.
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