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| Title |
Potentiation of GABAA Receptors Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes by Perfume and Phytoncid
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| Published in |
Nippon Nōgeikagaku Kaishi, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1271/bbb.63.743 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hitoshi AOSHIMA, Koutaro HAMAMOTO |
| Abstract |
To study the effects of perfume and phytoncid on GABAA receptors, ionotropic GABAA receptors were expressed in Xenopus oocytes by injecting mRNAs that had been prepared from rat whole brain. Essential oil, perfume and such phytoncid as leaf alcohol, hinokitiol, pinene, eugenol, citronellol and citronellal potentiated the response in the presence of GABA at low concentrations (10 and 30 microM), possibly because they bound to the potentiation-site in GABAA receptors and increased the affinity of GABA to the receptors. Since it is known that the potentiation of GABAA receptors by benzodiazepine, barbiturate, steroids and anesthetics induces the anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and sedative activity or anesthetic effect, these results suggest the possibility that the intake of perfume or phytoncid through the lungs, the skin or the intestines modulates the neural transmission in the brain through ionotropic GABAA receptors and changes the frame of the human mind, as alcohol or tobacco does. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 19% |
| Researcher | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 26 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 11% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 5 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 28 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 April 2018.
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#6,820
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