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Different GABAA receptor subtypes mediate the anxiolytic, abuse-related, and motor effects of benzodiazepine-like drugs in primates.


ABSTRACT: Benzodiazepines exert their effects by binding to multiple subtypes of the GABAA receptor, the predominant subtypes in the brain being those that contain alpha1-, alpha2-, alpha3-, and alpha5-subunits. To understand the potentially different roles of these subtypes in the therapeutic and side effects of benzodiazepines, we evaluated GABAA receptor subtype-preferring compounds in nonhuman primate models predictive of anxiolytic, sedative, motor, subjective, and reinforcing effects of benzodiazepine-type drugs. These compounds included zolpidem, which shows preferential binding to GABAA receptors containing alpha1-subunits (alpha1GABAA receptors); L-838,417, which shows functional selectivity for alpha2GABAA, alpha3GABAA, and alpha5GABAA receptors; and nonselective conventional benzodiazepines. The results provide evidence in nonhuman primates that alpha1GABAA receptors do not play a key role in the anxiolytic and muscle-relaxant properties of benzodiazepine-type drugs; instead, these effects involve alpha2GABAA, alpha3GABAA, and/or alpha5GABAA subtypes. Our results also suggest that the alpha1GABAA receptor subtype might be critically involved in the subjective, sedative, and motor effects of benzodiazepine-type drugs. In contrast, stimulation of alpha1GABAA receptors is sufficient, but not necessary, for mediation of the abuse potential of these drugs.

SUBMITTER: Rowlett JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC545524 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Different GABAA receptor subtypes mediate the anxiolytic, abuse-related, and motor effects of benzodiazepine-like drugs in primates.

Rowlett James K JK   Platt Donna M DM   Lelas Snjezana S   Atack John R JR   Dawson Gerard R GR  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050111 3


Benzodiazepines exert their effects by binding to multiple subtypes of the GABAA receptor, the predominant subtypes in the brain being those that contain alpha1-, alpha2-, alpha3-, and alpha5-subunits. To understand the potentially different roles of these subtypes in the therapeutic and side effects of benzodiazepines, we evaluated GABAA receptor subtype-preferring compounds in nonhuman primate models predictive of anxiolytic, sedative, motor, subjective, and reinforcing effects of benzodiazepi  ...[more]

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