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Competitive inhibition of gamma-aminobutyric acid synaptosomal uptake by 4-(4'-azidobenzoimidylamino)butanoic acid. 1982

G Tunnicliff, and T T Ngo

4-(4'-Azidobenzoimidylamino)butanoic acid (ABBA) is a potent inhibitor of rat brain synaptosomal [3H]gamma-aminobutyric acid uptake. Ki values were calculated to be 8 microM and 16 microM with respect to the high-affinity and the low-affinity uptake processes. These values are of the same order as those reported for nipecotic acid and guvacine, which until now have been the most potent uptake inhibitors available. Since ABBA contains a phenyl group, it might be capable of penetrating the blood-brain barrier, thus becoming a useful GABA mimetic.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007700	Kinetics	The rate dynamics in chemical or physical systems.
D008297	Male		Males
D011919	Rats, Inbred Strains	Genetically identical individuals developed from brother and sister matings which have been carried out for twenty or more generations or by parent x offspring matings carried out with certain restrictions. This also includes animals with a long history of closed colony breeding.	August Rats,Inbred Rat Strains,Inbred Strain of Rat,Inbred Strain of Rats,Inbred Strains of Rats,Rat, Inbred Strain,August Rat,Inbred Rat Strain,Inbred Strain Rat,Inbred Strain Rats,Inbred Strains Rat,Inbred Strains Rats,Rat Inbred Strain,Rat Inbred Strains,Rat Strain, Inbred,Rat Strains, Inbred,Rat, August,Rat, Inbred Strains,Rats Inbred Strain,Rats Inbred Strains,Rats, August,Rats, Inbred Strain,Strain Rat, Inbred,Strain Rats, Inbred,Strain, Inbred Rat,Strains, Inbred Rat
D001921	Brain	The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.	Encephalon
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001386	Azides	Organic or inorganic compounds that contain the -N3 group.	Azide
D013574	Synaptosomes	Pinched-off nerve endings and their contents of vesicles and cytoplasm together with the attached subsynaptic area of the membrane of the post-synaptic cell. They are largely artificial structures produced by fractionation after selective centrifugation of nervous tissue homogenates.	Synaptosome
D051381	Rats	The common name for the genus Rattus.	Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus
D018756	GABA Antagonists	Drugs that bind to but do not activate GABA RECEPTORS, thereby blocking the actions of endogenous GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID and GABA RECEPTOR AGONISTS.	gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Antagonists,GABA Antagonist,GABA Receptor Antagonists,Acid Antagonists, gamma-Aminobutyric,Antagonist, GABA,Antagonists, GABA,Antagonists, GABA Receptor,Antagonists, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid,Receptor Antagonists, GABA,gamma Aminobutyric Acid Antagonists