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The effects on synaptic transmission of blockers of amino acids at postsynaptic receptors were investigated by means of external perfusion of the basal membrane of electroreceptor cells in ampullae of Lorenzini and by recording of spike activity from individual nerve fibers in the skateRaja clavata: glutamic acid diethyl ester (DEE-GLU), glutamic acid dimethyl ester (DME-GLU), D-α-aminoadipic acid (DAA), kynurenic acid (KYN), and cis-2,3-piperidine dicarboxylic acid (PDA). The most effective blocker was found to be DEE-GLU, producing reversible blockade of postsynaptic amino acid response. It was found that DAA did not change synaptic transmission in the electroreceptors, while PDA largely affected response produced by applying L-aspartic acid (L-ASP); KYN affected response produced by L-glutamic acid (L-GLU). It is deduced that L-GLU and L-ASP are the most effective agonists at the afferent synapse of ampullae of Lorenzini and that their excitatory effect is produced by activating quisqualate receptors.
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I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 20, No. 4, July–August, 1988, pp. 457–463.
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Akoev, G.N., Andrianov, Y.N. & Sherman, N.O. Effects of some agonists of excitatory amino acids on synaptic transmission in the skate electroreceptors (ampullae of Lorenzini). Neurophysiology 20, 330–335 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198440
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