"Muscimol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A neurotoxic isoxazole isolated from species of AMANITA. It is obtained by decarboxylation of IBOTENIC ACID. Muscimol is a potent agonist of GABA-A RECEPTORS and is used mainly as an experimental tool in animal and tissue studies.
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D009118
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.462.470 D23.946.587.587
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscimol" by people in Profiles.
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Gompf HS, Irwin RP, Allen CN. Retrograde suppression of GABAergic currents in a subset of SCN neurons. Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Jun; 23(12):3209-16.
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Arikan R, Blake NM, Erinjeri JP, Woolsey TA, Giraud L, Highstein SM. A method to measure the effective spread of focally injected muscimol into the central nervous system with electrophysiology and light microscopy. J Neurosci Methods. 2002 Jul 30; 118(1):51-7.
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Bless EP, Westaway WA, Schwarting GA, Tobet SA. Effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) receptor manipulation on migrating gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons through the entire migratory route in vivo and in vitro. Endocrinology. 2000 Mar; 141(3):1254-62.