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XB-ART-20853
Vis Neurosci 1994 Jan 01;115:1003-12.
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Regulation of endogenous dopamine release in amphibian retina by gamma-aminobutyric acid and glycine.

Boatright JH , Rubim NM , Iuvone PM .


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Endogenous dopamine release in the retina of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) increases in light and decreases in darkness. The roles of the inhibitory amino acid transmitters gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine in regulating this light/dark difference in dopamine release were explored in the present study. Exogenous GABA, the GABA-A receptor agonist muscimol, the GABA-B receptor agonist baclofen, and the GABA-C receptor agonist cis-aminocrotonic acid (CACA) suppressed light-evoked dopamine overflow from eyecups. The effects of GABA-A and -B receptor agonists were selectively reversed by their respective receptor-specific antagonists, whereas the effect of CACA was reversed by the competitive GABA-A receptor antagonist bicuculline. The benzodiazepine diazepam enhanced the effect of muscimol on light-evoked dopamine release. Both GABA-A and -B receptor antagonists stimulated dopamine release in light or darkness. Bicuculline was more potent in light than in darkness. These data suggest that retinal dopaminergic neurons are inhibited by GABA-A and -B receptor activation in both light and darkness but that GABA-mediated inhibitory tone may be greater in darkness than in light. Exogenous glycine inhibited light-stimulated dopamine release in a concentration-dependent and strychnine-sensitive manner. However, strychnine alone did not increase dopamine release in light or darkness, nor did it augment bicuculline-stimulated release in darkness. Additionally, both strychnine and 7-chlorokynurenate, an antagonist of the strychnine-insensitive glycine-binding site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptor, suppressed light-evoked dopamine release. Thus, the role of endogenous glycine in the regulation of dopamine release remains unclear.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: crygdl2.2