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. 2008 Apr 21;154(4):797–811. doi: 10.1038/bjp.2008.135

Table 3.

Effect of allosteric enhancers alone and in the presence of various concentrations of GABA on the stimulation of GTPγ[35S] binding to the membranes from CHO-Gα16-hGABAB(1a,2a) cell line

  EC50 (nM) EC50 (Enh)/EC50 (Enh+GABA) nH
rac-BHFF alone 725.0±28.3   1.2
rac-BHFF+0.2 μM GABA 138.0±2.1 5.3 1.3
rac-BHFF+0.6 μM GABA 110.0±3.8 6.6 0.9
rac-BHFF+1.0 μM GABA 50.0±7.4 12.3 1.0
rac-BHFF+6.0 μM GABA 23.1±3.5 31.4 1.1
rac-BHFF+20.0 μM GABA 20.3±1.6 35.7 1.6
       
BHFI alone 6390.0±1111.4   0.8
BHFI+0.2 μM GABA 915.0±43.0 7.0 0.8
BHFI+0.6 μM GABA 438.0±61.6 14.6 0.8
BHFI+1.0 μM GABA 299.0±15.4 21.3 0.8
BHFI+6.0 μM GABA 134.0±8.4 47.6 0.7
BHFI+20.0 μM GABA 34.0±11.7 188.0 0.7
       
(+)-BHFF alone 556.0±4.3   1.0
(+)-BHFF+1.0 μM GABA 29.7±4.0 18.7 1.0
(−)-BHFF alone 1330.0±57.0   1.3
(−)-BHFF+1.0 μM GABA 142.0±3.8 9.4 1.3
BHFHP alone 712.0±23.8   1.6
BHFHP+1.0 μM GABA 48.0±2.8 14.8 1.1
CGP7930 alone No effect    
CGP7930+1.0 μM GABA 4180.0±957.0   1.0

Concentration–response curves were measured in the absence and presence of 0.2, 0.6, 1, 6 and 20 μM GABA for rac-BHFF and BHFI, and in the absence and presence of 1 μM GABA for (+)-BHFF, (−)-BHFF, BHFHP and CGP7930 (see Figure 4). The EC50 and nH values are mean±s.e.mean, calculated from three independent experiments each performed in triplicate.