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Inhibition of Membrane Permeability to Chloride by Copper in Molluscan Neurones

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Tauc and Gerschenfeld1 showed that acetylcholine (ACh) iontophoretically injected on the soma of the so-called H-neurones of molluscs produces a transient hyperpolarization (ACh potential) and that the inhibitory post-synaptic potentials (IPSP) recorded in these cells were cholinergic.

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  1. Institute de Anatomía General y Embriologia, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    D. J. CHIARANDINI, E. STEFANI & H. M. GERSCHENFELD

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CHIARANDINI, D., STEFANI, E. & GERSCHENFELD, H. Inhibition of Membrane Permeability to Chloride by Copper in Molluscan Neurones. Nature 213, 97–99 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213097a0

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