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Vol. 290, Issue 1, 104-111, July 1999
Departments of Anesthesiology (J.H.Y., R.S., W-H.W., P.L.L.,
V.K.Z., J.J.McA.), Pharmacology and Physiology (J.H.Y., P.L.L.,
V.K.Z., J.J.McA.), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
We examined the effect of ondansetron, an antagonist of type 3 serotonin receptors, on the whole cell response of freshly isolated
hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons of neonatal and "mature" rats to
glycine using the gramicidin perforated patch technique. Ondansetron
depressed the current induced by subsaturating concentrations of
glycine (IGly) in a concentration-dependent manner. The
ondansetron concentration needed to depress IGly induced by
30 µM glycine to half amplitude was 25 µM. Ondansetron (54 µM)
shifted the glycine concentration-response curve to the right in a
parallel manner, increasing the EC50 for glycine from
40 ± 3 µM to 70 ± 5 µM. Ondansetron increased the time
constant of activation of IGly without affecting the time
constant of deactivation. When examined under current clamp conditions,
glycine induced depolarization and hyperpolarization in neonatal and
mature neurons, respectively; ondansetron also suppressed these
responses to glycine. The data suggest that ondansetron competitively
inhibits the glycine receptor.
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