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The apparent ubiquity of both excitatory and inhibitory amino acid receptors in the mammalian central nervous system is now well established. Despite the passage of approximately 23 years since the inception of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate receptors (Curtis and Watkins, 1963; Krnjevic and Phillis, 1963), these receptor sites and their associated ‘ion channels’ have proved difficult to study quantitatively, mainly because of limited pharmacological accessibility and complicated tissue topography.
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Smart, T.G. et al. (1986). Expression of Vertebrate Amino Acid Receptors in Xenopus Oocytes. In: Schwarcz, R., Ben-Ari, Y. (eds) Excitatory Amino Acids and Epilepsy. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 203. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7971-3_41
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