The bathing solution consisted of (in mM) 125 NaCl, 25 NaHCO
3, 1.25 NaH
2PO
5, 1 MgCl
2, 2 CaCl
2, 2.5 KCl, 10 glucose and was equilibrated with 95% O
2/5% CO
2 at least 1 h before use (pH 7.4, osmolarity 306 mOsm). Two pipette solutions for whole-cell recordings were used: for a pipette Cl
- concentration ([Cl
-]
p) of 10 mM the solution was composed of (in mM) 128
K-gluconate, 2 KCl, 4 NaCl, 1 CaCl
2, 11 EGTA, 10
K-HEPES, 2 Mg
2-ATP, 0.5 Na-GTP, and 2 lidocaine-
N-ethyl chloride (pH adjusted to 7.4 with KOH and osmolarity to 306 mOsm with sucrose). For a [Cl
-]
p of 50 mM the solution contained (in mM) 86
K-gluconate, 44 KCl, 4 NaCl, 1 CaCl
2, 11 EGTA, 10
K-HEPES, 2 Mg2-ATP, 0.5 Na-GTP. Pipette solution for gramicidin-perforated patch experiments consisted of (in mM) 10 Na-gluconate, 120 KCl, 1 CaCl
2, 2 MgCl
2, 11 EGTA, and 10
K-HEPES. For gramicidin-perforated patch-clamp recordings 10 μg/ml
Gramicidin D (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, United States) was added from a stock solution (2 mg/ml in
DMSO) on the day of experiment.
Gramicidin D,
bumetanide, and lidocaine-
N-ethyl chloride was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich and
6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) was obtained from Biotrend (Cologne, Germany). CNQX and
bumetanide were used from a dimethylsulfoxide (
DMSO, Sigma-Aldrich) stock solution. The
DMSO concentration of the final solution never exceeded 0.1%.
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