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Psychedelic Drugs: Types, Uses, and Effects Reasoning that if 5-HT2A signaling led to an increase in sEPSC by release of a retrograde transmitter, transfection of a cell with the 5-HT2A receptor should rescue the ability of AMS to increase sEPSCs only in cells where 5-HT2A receptors were expressed. AMS did not induce an inward current in control but elicited an inward current in neighboring neurons transfected with the 5-HT2A receptor. The authors found that expression of 5-HT2A receptors in pyramidal cells from 5-HT2A KO mice rescued the ability of 5-HT2A receptors to signal an inward current but not the ability to increase sEPSC frequency. In another experiment, they used GTPγS, a nonhydrolyzable GTP analog, to render G protein–mediated responses irreversible. AMS induced a small inward current that recovered on agonist removal from control cells, as well as an irreversible inward current in cells loaded with GTPγS. Importantly, however, the sEPSC increases for both types of cells ...