Caffeine and Related Compounds Block Inhibitory Amino Acid-gated Cl- Currents in Freshly Dissociated Rat Hippocampal Neurones

Overview

Journal Br J Pharmacol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1993 Jun 1

PMID 7689394

Citations 3

Authors

H Uneyama

N HARATA

N Akaike

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Abstract

1. The effects of caffeine and related compounds on responses mediated by inhibitory amino acids were investigated in freshly dissociated rat hippocampal pyramidal neurones by conventional and nystatin perforated patch-clamp techniques. 2. Glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) evoked Cl- currents in hippocampal neurones. The half-maximum effective concentrations (EC50) of glycine and GABA were 8.5 x 10(-5) and 5 x 10(-6) M, respectively. 3. Caffeine reversibly inhibited both 10(-4) M glycine- and 10(-5) M GABA-induced Cl-currents in a concentration-dependent manner. The half-maximum inhibitory concentrations (IC50) of caffeine were 4.5 x 10(-4) M for the glycine response and 3.6 x 10(-3) M for the GABA response. 4. Caffeine shifted the concentration-response curve of IGly to the right without affecting the maximum response. 5. The inhibitory action of caffeine did not show voltage-dependency. 6. The blocking action of caffeine was not affected by intracellular perfusion with 5 mM BAPTA or by pretreatment with the protein kinase A inhibitor, H-8. This excludes the participation of Ca2+ or cyclic AMP in the inhibitory action of caffeine. 7. Caffeine failed to inhibit the augmentations of aspartate- and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) -gated current by glycine, suggesting that caffeine has no effect on the allosteric glycine binding site on the NMDA receptor. 8. The inhibitory effects of some xanthine derivatives on IGly were compared. The inhibitory potency of those compounds on IGly was in the order of pentoxifylline > theophylline > or = caffeine > paraxanthine > IBMX > or = theobromine > dyphylline. Xanthine had no effect. 9. The results indicate that methylxanthines including caffeine may act directly on the glycine receptor Cl- channel complex in rat hippocampal pyramidal neurones. The blockade of the inhibitory amino acid response by methylxanthines may be involved in the excitatory side effects of methylxanthines in the mammalian central nervous system.

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