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Excitatory Amino Acid Receptor Antagonists Block the Cardiovascular and Anxiety Responses Elicited by γ-Aminobutyric AcidA Receptor Blockade in the Basolateral Amygdala of Rats

T. J. Sajdyk and A. Shekhar
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics November 1997, 283 (2) 969-976;
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Blockade of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) receptors in the anterior basolateral amygdala (BLA) with bicuculline methiodide results in an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and “anxiety” in rats. Glutamate receptors in the BLA are also reported to be involved in eliciting anxiety responses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction between GABAergic inhibition and glutamatergic excitation in the BLA. Male Wistar rats were implanted with femoral arterial catheters and bilateral chronic microinjection cannulae into the BLA. Each animal was injected with either artificial cerebrospinal fluid (100 nl), bicuculline methiodide (20 pmol/100 nl) or bicuculline methiodide + one dose of an antagonist of either the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor [AP5 (20 and 100 pmol) and dizocilpine (25 and 125 pmol)] or the non-N-methyl-d-aspartate ionotropic receptor [CNQX (10 and 50 pmol) and GYKI 52466 (50 and 250 pmol)]. Increases in heart rate, blood pressure and “anxiety” (as measured in the social interaction test) observed in rats after bicuculline methiodide injections into the BLA were blocked in a dose dependent manner with the concurrent injections of either N-methyl-d-aspartate or non-N-methyl-d-aspartate antagonists, suggesting that activation of both subtypes of glutamate ionotropic receptors may be necessary for the responses elicited by GABAA receptor blockade in the anterior basolateral amygdala.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Dr. Anantha Shekhar, Dept. Of Psychiatry, Indiana University Medical Center, 791 Union Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202.

  • ↵1 This study was supported by Public Health Service Grant MH 52691, PDP grant from the IUPUI biomedical Grant Program and a grant from the Association for the Advancement of Mental Health Research and Education Inc.

  • Abbreviations:
    a-CSF
    artificial cerebrospinal fluid
    BLA
    basolateral amygdala
    BMI
    bicuculline methiodide
    BP
    blood pressure
    EAA
    excitatory amino acid
    EPSP
    excitatory postsynaptic potential
    GABA
    γ-aminobutyric acid
    HR
    heart rate
    i.c.
    intracranial
    IPSP
    inhibitory postsynaptic potential
    NMDA
    N-methyl-d aspartate
    SI
    social interaction
    ANOVA
    analysis of variance
    • Received December 23, 1996.
    • Accepted July 23, 1997.
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