Abstract
2-Pyrrolidinone, the lactam of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), is identified as the major constituent of total GABA in human CSF. Structural elucidation was done by mass spectrometry. In lumbar CSF of four patients, 2-pyrrolidinone represented about 54% of GABA found after acid hydrolysis, thus accounting for essentially all of the hitherto unknown GABA fraction in CSF.
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