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Changes in the development of spontaneous motility in chick embryos after the chronic administration of GABA
Authors:J Sedlácek
Institution:Research Laboratory of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.
Abstract:From the 4th to the 16th day of incubation, GABA was administered continuously to chick embryos in a mean dose of 9.04 +/- 0.98 mg/kg e.w./24 h. On the 17th day of incubation, spontaneous motility was evaluated from the frequency of spontaneous movements as resting motility and motility after the acute administration of GABA (100 mg/kg e.w.), bicuculline (1 mg/kg e.w.) and oxazepam (10 mg/kg e.w.). 1) The chronic administration of GABA reduced the spontaneous motor activity of the experimental embryos to 38.4-47.8% of the control value. To obtain this effect it was sufficient to administer GABA between the 4th and the 8th day of incubation. 2) The inhibitory effect of the acute administration of GABA in the experimental embryos was only half its effect in the controls. Conversely, the relative size of bicuculline activation of motility was distinctly greater in the experimental embryos, which were also significantly more sensitive to oxazepam. The results show that GABA has a dual effect during embryogenesis--a) an early effect between the 4th and 8th day of incubation causing a chronic debt in the development of spontaneous motor activity, and b) an inhibitory effect as a central transmitter, which begins to be manifested in embryonic spontaneous motility of chick embryos on about the 15th day of incubation.
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