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Science 18 November 1977:
Vol. 198. no. 4318, pp. 748 - 750
DOI: 10.1126/science.910159
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Science, Vol 198, Issue 4318, 748-750
Copyright © 1977 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Amacrine cells in Necturus retina: evidence for independent gamma-aminobutyric acid- and glycine-releasing neurons

RF Miller, RF Dacheux, and TE Frumkes

About one-half of on-off ganglion cells have inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSP's) which are blocked by strychnine, while the remainder have IPSP's which are blocked by picrotoxin or bicuculline. These antagonists do not abolish light activity of the presynaptic inhibitory neuron, the amacrine cell. The existence of separate gamma-aminobutyric acid- and glycine-releasing amacrine cells is implied by these results.


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