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Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin
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(12)1987.
Article
in Chinese
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| ID: wpr-560967
ABSTRACT
Aim To investigate total flavones of epimedium (TFE) modulation of glycine-activated current (IGly) in acutely dissociated rat spinal dorsal horn neurons. Method Whole-cell patch-clamp technique was used. Result TFE inhibited IGly reversibly in a concentration-dependent manner. It shifted the concentration-response relationship to the right without altering the maximum response and Hill coefficient of the IGly. TFE did not change the ion selectivity of glycine receptor either. Conclusion These results indicate that TFE directly inhibited the glycine receptor response by decreasing the affinity of glycine to its receptor.