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Strychnine, Glycine and Vertebrate Postsynaptic Inhibition

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ON the basis of experiments performed on Mauthner cells of the goldfish, the suggestion has been made1 that the competitive and reversible antagonism demonstrated in the feline spinal cord between glycine and strychnine2–4, an alkaloid known to block spinal postsynaptic inhibition, does not necessarily support the proposal that glycine could be a spinal inhibitory transmitter in the cat.

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CURTIS, D., JOHNSTON, G. Strychnine, Glycine and Vertebrate Postsynaptic Inhibition. Nature 225, 1258–1259 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251258a0

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