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Low dose acute alcohol effects on GABA A receptor subtypes.
Pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Nov 2006
Wallner Martin, Hanchar H Jacob, Olsen Richard W
Abstract excerpt
GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)Rs) are the main inhibitory neurotransmitter receptors and have long been implicated in mediating at least part of the acute actions of ethanol. For example, ethanol and GABAergic drugs including barbiturates and benzodiazepines share many pharmacological properties. Besides the prototypical synaptic GABA(A)R subtypes, nonsynaptic GABA(A)Rs have recently emerged as important regulators...
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