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. 1979 Jan 15;178(1):9–13. doi: 10.1042/bj1780009

The effects of barbiturates on the metabolism of phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylinositol in rat brain synaptosomes.

J C Miller, I Leung
PMCID: PMC1186475  PMID: 435289

Abstract

Barbiturates and diphenylhydantoin inhibit the carbamoylcholine-stimulated increase in 32P incorporation into phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidic acid, but have a relatively slight effect on the incorporation of 32P into these lipids in the absence of carbamoylcholine and no effect on 32P incorporation into phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Inhibition of the carbamoylcholine-stimulated increase was observed for pentobarbital, thiopental, phenobarbital, 5-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-5-ethylbarbiturate, (+)- and (-)-5-ethyl-N-methyl-5-propylbarbituate and diphenylhydantoin. Similar concentrations of barbiturates and diphenylhydantoin were previously reported to inhibit the K+-stimulated Ca2+ influx, and therefore other agents that affect Ca2+ influx were tested to find whether they had any effect on 32P incorporation into these lipids. K+ (35 mM) increases 32P incorporation into phosphatidic acid, but to a smaller degree than 100 micrometer-carbamoylcholine, and its effect was inhibited by pentobarbital. Veratridine (75 micrometer) does not increase 32P incorporation into either phosphatidic acid or phosphatidylinositol, but did inhibit the carbamoylcholine-stimulated increase in 32P incorporation into phosphatidylinositol. The possible relationship between the phospholipid effect and stimulated Ca2+ influx is discussed.

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