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Dual-phenotype GABA/glutamate neurons in adult preoptic area: sexual dimorphism and function.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Sept 2004
Ottem Erich N, Godwin Jonathan G, Krishnan Sudha, Petersen Sandra L
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It is generally assumed that the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA and the stimulatory neurotransmitter glutamate are released from different neurons in adults. However, this tenet has made it difficult to explain how the same afferent signals can cause opposite changes in GABA and glutamate release. Such reciprocal release is a central mechanism in the neural control of many physiological processes including...
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