The anticonvulsant gabapentin (Neurontin) does not act through γ-aminobutyric acid-B receptors

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1377-1384

  Jensen, Anders A ^a   Mosbacher, Johannes ^b   Elg, Susanne ^c   Lingenhoehl, Kurt ^b   Lohmann, Tania ^b,e   Johansen, Tommy N ^a   Abrahamsen, Bjarke ^a   Mattsson, Jan P ^c   Lehmann, Anders ^d   Bettler, Bernhard ^b,e   Bräuner Osborne, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BACLOFEN; CALCIUM; GABAPENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACETIC ACIDS; AMINES; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOGS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; OOCYTES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036259012     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.61.6.1377     Document Type: Article

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