A microelectrophoretic method for the evaluation of GABA transaminase activity.

The reduction to the micro-scale of a recently described electrophoretic method for the evaluation of GABA catabolism by GABA-T is presented. The micromethod involves the electrophoresis, in 1 mm diam. capillaries, of small samples of mixtures of [14C]GABA and its metabolites. By coupling this procedure to previously devised micromethods, it was possible to evaluate GABA-T attack to 14C labeled GABA diffusing across a single microdissected neuronal membrane.