Hej allesammen, jeg er som så mange andre i gang med at skrive min SRP, men jeg har i min research stødt på noget lidt forvirrende... Det er et eksperiment fra 2005 der åbenbart skal kunne bevise, at alkohol ikke binder sig direkte til GABA-receptorerne, men rettere bare sætter gang i produktionen af GABA i det presynaptiske neuron. Dette har de testet ved at analysere frekvensen af mIPSC (miniature Inhibitory Post-Synaptic Currents) i det postsynaptiske neuron. Det de gjorde var, at behandle nogle neuroner med bicuculline, en GABA-antagonist, og så tilføje alkohol. De fandt ud af at frekvensen af mIPSC var nedsat, og så siger de at det derfor ikke kan være alkohol der påvirker receptoren direkte... Og det synes jeg ikke gav mening, hvis I ikke forstår det jeg lige har skrevet forstår jeg det godt, det er lidt svært at forklare når man ikke er helt sikker

så her er teksten...:
Criswell studies nerve cell inhibition and activation at the synaptic level by measuring electrical currents generated in individual nerve cells isolated from brains of rats. To test his hypothesis that alcohol’s GABAmimetic effects might be caused by an alcohol-mediated increase in GABA release from nerve cells, Criswell measured miniature inhibitory postsynaptic currents (mIPSCs) from isolated nerve cells to which alcohol had been applied. The mIPSC corresponds to the amount of electrical current (in this case, inhibitory current) generated in the postsynaptic nerve cell by the presynaptic nerve cell’s release of one packet of GABA. With Research Associate Dr. Zhen Ming, Criswell found that alcohol increased the frequency of mIPSCs in cells from a brain region known as the cerebellum. The additional finding that the alcohol-associated increase in the frequency of mIPSCs was prevented by pretreatment of the cells with bicuculline, a drug that blocks the postsynaptic GABAA receptor, confirms that the mIPSCs were mediated by GABA. Together, the results suggest that alcohol might enhance GABAergic neurotransmission by increasing the amount of GABA released from presynaptic nerve cells. Thus, alcohol can affect a mechanism related to GABA function without binding directly to the postsynaptic GABA receptor.
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