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Nature Neuroscience 12, 1081 - 1083 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0909-1081
Get stoned in GABAergic synapses
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Ken Mackie is in the Gill Center and the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
e-mail: kmackie@indiana.edu -
István Katona is at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
e-mail: katona@koki.hu
Abstract
The study by Ozaita and colleagues in this issue identifies a function of CB1 cannabinoid receptors—THC-induced amnesia—and reveals the surprising role of GABAergic synapses in mediating this phenomenon.
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