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GABA Receptors: Recent Advances
Norman G. Bowery, Kengo Kuriyama, Jeremy J. Lambert, R W Olsen, T.G. Smart
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Abstract
It is now nearly three decades since the full significance of GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter was first established [1]. However, it is only for about the last 10 years that we have known that the actions of GABA are mediated via multiple receptor subtypes, rather than a single one [2]. Broadly the receptor-mediated effects of GABA can be classified as fast or slow with the former relating to the GABAA receptor class and the latter to the GABAB class [3]. Further functional receptor types e.g. GABAC may well become established in future as Johnston recently suggested [4] but for the purpose of this review, the material has been confined to GABAA and GABAB.