Functional role of ambient GABA in refining neuronal circuits early in postnatal development

Early in development, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mature brain, depolarizes and excites targeted neurons by an outwardly directed flux of chloride, resulting from the peculiar balance between the cation-chloride importer NKCC1 and the extruder KCC2....

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Main Authors: Giada eCellot, Enrico eCherubini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2013.00136/full