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Initial velocities of uptake of GABA have been measured in rat brain synaptosomes from animals which had been exposed to oxygen at high pressure (OHP) and compared to similar measurements in normobaric controls. For hypothalamus, no changes in GABA uptake occurred subsequent to exposure to OHP. For cortical synaptosomes, however, exposure to OHP resulted in a decreased velocity of GABA uptake at all combinations of [Na] and [GABA] used. The OHP data were found to fit the same transport model as found previously for control data. Thus, OHP exposure did not alter the basic mechanism by which sodium and GABA interact with the carrier in the process of transport. However, the constants which quantitate the model were changed by OHP exposure. As a consequence, the several kinetic parameters which are calculated from the model change in the OHP animals. These kinetic parameters are compared to similar calculations for both normobaric control animals and normobaric aged animals. Although the effects of OHP do not precisely parallel the effects of aging, the alterations in kinetic parameters are in several ways similar in the aged and OHP animals.
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Wheeler, D.D., Blackburn, J.G. & Tai, J.J. Effect of hyperbaric oxygen on GABA transport in rat brain synaptosomes. J. Neural Transmission 57, 167–185 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01245116
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