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Philanthotoxin blocks quisqualate-, AMPA- and kainate-, but not NMDA-, induced excitation of rat brainstem neurones in vivo.
Authors:M. G. Jones   N. A. Anis     D. Lodge
Affiliation:Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London.
Abstract:1. The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids. 2. Philanthotoxin caused a dose-dependent reduction of responses to quisqualate, alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-phenyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) and kainate with little effect on those to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). 3. The time-course of this antagonist action was slow. In particular the rate of recovery was dependent on frequency of ejection of the agonist. This agonist-dependent recovery suggests that philanthotoxin has a channel blocking mode of action on mammalian central neurones.
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