In vitro effect of serotonin on the enzyme activities of glutamate decarbosylase and GABA transaminase at the level of acellular preparations of rat mesencephalon synaptosomes
Belin, M.F.; Kouyoumdjian, J.C.; Gonnard, P.; Jouvet, M.
Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Societe de Biologie et de ses Filiales 170(6): 1243-1247
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9026 PMID: 140743 Document Number: 105229
The effect of serotonin on glutamate decarboxylase and GABA-transaminase was studied, in vitro, in synaptosome homogenates from rat mesencephalon. Serotonin dissolved in the incubation medium inhibits glutamate decarboxylase activity and stimulates GABA-transaminase activity.