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Freeze-dried sections (14 μm thick) were prepared from mice with normal (C57BL strain) and degenerated (C3H strain) retinas. GABA concentration and GAD activity were determined in the microsamples (1.8–20 ng dry weight) of retinal layers and sublayers, using an enzymatic amplication reaction, NADP cycling. 1) GABA was distributed over all layers of normal retina with a broad concentration peak covering both inner nuclear and plexiform layers. In contrast, GAD activity was mostly localized in the inner plexiform layer. 2) GABA concentration was similar in one-fourth of the sublayers of each inner nuclear or plexiform layer. GAD activity was highest in the innermost sublayer of the inner nuclear layer. An increasing gradient of GAD activity was present in the inward direction in the inner plexiform layer. 3) In the degenerated retina, lacking in photoreceptors, the inner nuclear and plexiform layers remained, and GABA and GAD levels in these layers were similar to those in normal retina.
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Kato, T., Murashima, Y.L. GABA concentration and GAD activity levels in normal and degenerated retinas from mice. Neurochem Res 12, 529–535 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01000237
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