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Supersensitivity to allosteric GABA(A) receptor modulators and alcohol in mice lacking PKCepsilon.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Nov 1999
Hodge C W, Mehmert K K, Kelley S P, McMahon T, Haywood A, Olive M F, Wang D, Sanchez-Perez A M, Messing R O
Abstract excerpt
Several of the actions of ethanol are mediated by gamma-aminobutyrate type A (GABA(A)) receptors. Here we demonstrated that mutant mice lacking protein kinase C epsilon (PKCepsilon) were more sensitive than wild-type littermates to the acute behavioral effects of ethanol and other drugs that allosterically activate GABA(A) receptors. GABA(A) receptors in membranes isolated from the frontal cortex of PKCepsilon...
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