Protein Information

Name CA1
Synonyms CA IX; CA1; Carbonic anhydrase I; CA2; CAII; Carbonic anhydrase II; Carbonic dehydratase; Carbonic anhydrase III…

Compound Information

Name strychnine
CAS strychnidin-10-one

Reference List

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14568560 Kondratskaya EL, Pankratov YV, Lalo UV, Chatterjee SS, Krishtal OA: Inhibition of hippocampal LTP by ginkgolide B is mediated by its blocking action on PAF rather than glycine receptors. Neurochem Int. 2004 Feb;44(3):171-7.

The effect of ginkgolide B on LTP did not alter considerably if GlyRs were blocked by strychnine (2 microM).
The question is as follows: is the alteration of LTP by BN52021 due to the PAF antagonism or to the inhibition of glycine-gated chloride channels? We have studied the effects of ginkgolides B and J on LTP induced in the CA1 area of rat hippocampus.
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12505654 Yu K, Ge SY, Ruan DY: Fe2+ decreases the taurine-induced Cl- current in acutely dissociated rat hippocampal neurons. Brain Res. 2003 Jan 17;960(1-2):25-35.

The effects of ferrous ions (Fe (2+)) on taurine-induced Cl (-) current (I (tau)) recorded from single neurons, which was freshly isolated from the rat hippocampal CA1 area, were studied with conventional whole-cell recording under voltage-clamp conditions.
Using standard pharmacological approaches, we found that the currents gated by concentrations of taurine (neurons tested, were predominantly mediated by strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors.
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9548821 Maryanoff BE, Costanzo MJ, Nortey SO, Greco MN, Shank RP, Schupsky JJ, Ortegon MP, Vaught JL: Structure-activity studies on anticonvulsant sugar sulfamates related to topiramate. J Med Chem. 1998 Apr 9;41(8):1315-43.

Cyclic sulfate 2, like topiramate and phenytoin, did not interfere with seizures induced by pentylenetetrazole, bicucculine, picrotoxin, and strychnine; also, 2 was not active in diverse in vitro receptor binding and uptake assays.
However, 2 turned out to be a potent inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase from different rat tissue sources (e. g., IC50 of 84 nM for the blood enzyme and 21 nM for the brain enzyme).
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14530208 Rouaud E, Billard JM: D-cycloserine facilitates synaptic plasticity but impairs glutamatergic neurotransmission in rat hippocampal slices. Br J Pharmacol. 2003 Nov;140(6):1051-6. Epub 2003 Oct 6.

In the present study, we have investigated the effects of DCS on glutamatergic neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity in CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices, using extracellular field excitatory postsynaptic potentials. 2.
This inhibition was not prevented by the gamma-aminobutyric acid GABAA antagonist bicuculline, but was antagonized by the glycine antagonist strychnine. 4.
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9439847 Wu J, Jin GZ: Tetrahydroberberine blocks membrane K+ channels underlying its inhibition of intracellular message-mediated outward currents in acutely dissociated CA1 neurons from rat hippocampus. Brain Res. 1997 Nov 14;775(1-2):214-8.

In the patch-clamp perforated whole-cell recording mode, tetrahydroberberine (THB), a novel dopamine (DA) receptor antagonist, inhibits not only DA-induced outward K+ currents, but also acetylcholine-, caffeine- or strychnine-induced outward current.
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12429224 Wu HQ, Lee SC, Scharfman HE, Schwarcz R: L-4-chlorokynurenine attenuates kainate-induced seizures and lesions in the rat. Exp Neurol. 2002 Sep;177(1):222-32.

Blockade of the strychnine-insensitive glycine site of the NMDA receptor is considered an attractive strategy for the development of novel neuroprotective and anticonvulsive agents. 7-Cl-kynurenic acid (7-Cl-KYNA) is a potent, selective antagonist of the NMDA/glycine receptor but penetrates poorly through the blood-brain barrier.
Repeated 4-Cl-KYN administration also prevented KA-induced lesions in the piriform cortex and provided protection of hippocampal pyramidal cells in area CA1.
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11877523 Chattipakorn SC, McMahon LL: Pharmacological characterization of glycine-gated chloride currents recorded in rat hippocampal slices. J Neurophysiol. 2002 Mar;87(3):1515-25.

An inhibitory role for strychnine-sensitive glycine-gated chloride channels (GlyRs) in mature hippocampus has been overlooked, largely due to the misconception that GlyR expression ceases early during development and to few functional studies demonstrating their presence.
In this study, we used pharmacological tools and whole cell patch-clamp recordings of CA1 pyramidal cells and interneurons in acutely prepared hippocampal slices from 3- to 4-wk old rats to characterize these understudied receptors.
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7477740 Fossom LH, Von Lubitz DK, Lin RC, Skolnick P: Neuroprotective actions of 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid (ACPC): a partial agonist at strychnine-insensitive glycine sites. Neurol Res. 1995 Aug;17(4):265-9.

Survival of hippocampal CA1 neurons (quantitated 7 days post-ischemia) was significantly (approximately 3-fold) increased by the 600 mg kg-1 dose.
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7529821 Amato A, Ballerini L, Attwell D: Intracellular pH changes produced by glutamate uptake in rat hippocampal slices. J Neurophysiol. 1994 Oct;72(4):1686-96.

The mean intracellular pH in area CA1 of rat hippocampal slices was monitored fluorescently after loading the cells with the dye BCECF-AM. 2.
The glutamate-evoked acidification was not significantly reduced by blockers of glutamate-gated ion channels [6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3- dione (CNQX) and D-aminophosphonovalerate (APV)] nor by blockers of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)- and glycine-gated channels (picrotoxin and strychnine), and so was not produced by H+ entry through alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4- isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) or N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor channels nor by HCO3- exit through the chloride channels controlled by GABA or glycine. 4.
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7860652 Warner DS, Martin H, Ludwig P, McAllister A, Keana JF, Weber E: In vivo models of cerebral ischemia: effects of parenterally administered NMDA receptor glycine site antagonists. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 1995 Mar;15(2):188-96.


We conclude that pharmacologic antagonism of glycine at the strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor presents a neuroprotective profile similar to that previously observed for antagonists of glutamate at the N-methyl-D-aspartate complex with a potential for fewer side effects.
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7912632 Shuker MA, Bowser-Riley F, Davies SN: Possible NMDA antagonist properties of drugs that affect high pressure neurological syndrome. Br J Pharmacol. 1994 Mar;111(3):951-5.


Previous studies have suggested that a series of drugs modelled on part of the strychnine molecule interfere with the development of high pressure neurological syndrome (HPNS) and it was presumed that this effect was via an action on inhibitory glycinergic transmission.
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9786501 Platt B, Bate JR, von Linstow Roloff E, Withington DJ: Glycine induces a novel form of long-term potentiation in the superficial layers of the superior colliculus. Br J Pharmacol. 1998 Sep;125(2):293-300.


LTPgly could only be masked but not prevented by strychnine (100 microM) and remained undisturbed in the presence of picrotoxin (100 microM). 5.
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19523966 Mok MH, Fricker AC, Weil A, Kew JN: Electrophysiological characterisation of the actions of kynurenic acid at ligand-gated ion channels. Neuropharmacology. 2009 Sep;57(3):242-9. Epub 2009 Jun 11.


KynA inhibited AMPA-evoked currents to a similar degree in cultured hippocampal neurons and a human GluR2 (flip/unedited) cell line (IC (50): 433 and 596 muM, respectively) and at higher concentrations, kynA also inhibited the strychnine-sensitive glycine receptor ( approximately 35% inhibition by 3 mM kynA).
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12612034 Chattipakorn SC, McMahon LL: Strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors depress hyperexcitability in rat dentate gyrus. J Neurophysiol. 2003 Mar;89(3):1339-42. Epub 2002 Nov 6.

We now report that glycine application to dentate granule cells and hilar interneurons recorded in acute slices from adolescent rats elicits a strychnine-sensitive current similar to glycine-mediated currents recorded in area CA1, indicating that GlyRs are also present on neurons in the dentate gyrus.
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16381810 Song W, Chattipakorn SC, McMahon LL: Glycine-gated chloride channels depress synaptic transmission in rat hippocampus. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Apr;95(4):2366-79. Epub 2005 Dec 28.

Using whole cell current-clamp recordings, we show that activation of strychnine-sensitive GlyRs through exogenous glycine application causes a significant decrease in input resistance and prevents somatically generated action potentials in both CA1 pyramidal cells and interneurons.
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18632940 Keck T, Lillis KP, Zhou YD, White JA: Frequency-dependent glycinergic inhibition modulates plasticity in hippocampus. J Neurosci. 2008 Jul 16;28(29):7359-69.

We find that strychnine-sensitive GlyRs are open in the resting CA1 pyramidal cell, creating a state of tonic inhibition that "shunts" the magnitude of EPSPs evoked by electrical stimulation of the Schaffer collateral inputs.
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17913992 Zhang HX, Thio LL: Zinc enhances the inhibitory effects of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors in mouse hippocampal neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Dec;98(6):3666-76. Epub 2007 Oct 3.

To test this possibility, we examined the effect of the GlyR antagonist strychnine and the Zn (2+) chelator tricine on action potential firing by CA1 pyramidal neurons in mouse hippocampal slices.
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16107637 Lozovaya N, Yatsenko N, Beketov A, Tsintsadze T, Burnashev N: Glycine receptors in CNS neurons as a target for nonretrograde action of cannabinoids. J Neurosci. 2005 Aug 17;25(33):7499-506.

We also demonstrate that, in the presence of a GABA (A) receptor antagonist, GlyRs may contribute to the generation of seizure-like activity induced by short bursts (seven stimuli) of high-frequency stimulation of inputs to hippocampal CA1 region, because this activity was diminished by selective GlyR antagonists (strychnine and ginkgolides B and J).
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7796152 Newell DW, Barth A, Malouf AT: Glycine site NMDA receptor antagonists provide protection against ischemia-induced neuronal damage in hippocampal slice cultures. Brain Res. 1995 Mar 27;675(1-2):38-44.

Ischemia-induced neuronal injury can be reduced by glutamate antagonists acting at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. 7-Chlorokynurenic acid and the recently synthesized compound Acea 1021 block NMDA receptors by acting at the strychnine-insensitive glycine site.
The anti-ischemic properties of these compounds were tested by evaluating their ability to reduce CA1 neuronal damage in hippocampal slice cultures deprived of oxygen and glucose.
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9223540 Yuan Y, Atchison WD: Action of methylmercury on GABA (A) receptor-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission is primarily responsible for its early stimulatory effects on hippocampal CA1 excitatory synaptic transmission. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1997 Jul;282(1):64-73.

Pretreatment of slices with strychnine, did not prevent MeHg-induced early increase in population spikes.
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10958157 Pozza MF, Zimmerman K, Bischoff S, Lingenhohl K: Electrophysiological characterization of CGP68730A a N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist acting at the strychnine-insensitive glycine site. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2000 May;24(4):647-70.

Extracellular recordings were done in vitro in the neocortical slice and in the CA1 region of the hippocampal slice and in vivo in the CA1 region of the hippocampus of the anaesthetized rat. 2.
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8922750 Wu J, Harata N, Akaike N: Potentiation by sevoflurane of the gamma-aminobutyric acid-induced chloride current in acutely dissociated CA1 pyramidal neurones from rat hippocampus. Br J Pharmacol. 1996 Nov;119(5):1013-21.

But ISev was insensitive to strychnine (Str), an antagonist of the glycine receptor. 4.
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9707286 Lingenhohl K, Pozza MF: Reevaluation of ACEA 1021 as an antagonist at the strychnine-insensitive glycine site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor. Neuropharmacology. 1998 Jun;37(6):729-37.

In vivo, ACEA 1021 was tested on NMDA-induced excitation in the CA1 region.
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11893914 Li Y, Xu TL: State-dependent cross-inhibition between anionic GABA (A) and glycine ionotropic receptors in rat hippocampal CA1 neurons. Neuroreport. 2002 Feb 11;13(2):223-6.

The current inhibition was also absent in the presence of Gly or GABA (A) receptor antagonists, strychnine or bicuculline, respectively.
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15140905 Bieda MC, MacIver MB: Major role for tonic GABAA conductances in anesthetic suppression of intrinsic neuronal excitability. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Sep;92(3):1658-67. Epub 2004 May 12.

We examined effects of propofol on the intrinsic excitability of hippocampal CA1 neurons (primarily interneurons) recorded from adult rat brain slices.
Propofol-induced depression of intrinsic excitability was completely reversed by bicuculline and picrotoxin but was strychnine-insensitive, implicating GABA (A) but not glycine receptors.
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10022256 Albuquerque EX, Pereira EF, Braga MF, Matsubayashi H, Alkondon M: Neuronal nicotinic receptors modulate synaptic function in the hippocampus and are sensitive to blockade by the convulsant strychnine and by the anti-Parkinson drug amantadine. Toxicol Lett. 1998 Dec 28;102-103:211-8.

Evidence is provided that rapid application of nicotinic agonists to CA1 interneurons in hippocampal slices can trigger responses with at least one of three components: (i) whole-cell currents due to activation of nicotinic receptors (nAChRs) on the neuron under study; (ii) fast current transients representing back-propagating action potentials; and (iii) post-synaptic currents mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) released from presynaptic neurons by activation of preterminal nAChRs.
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11069593 Zaninetti M, Raggenbass M: Oxytocin receptor agonists enhance inhibitory synaptic transmission in the rat hippocampus by activating interneurons in stratum pyramidale. Eur J Neurosci. 2000 Nov;12(11):3975-84.

Oxytocin binding sites are present in the subiculum and CA1 region and oxytocin can excite a class of CA1 nonpyramidal neurons.
These peptide-enhanced IPSCs were blocked by bicuculline, but not by strychnine, and reversed near 0 mV, indicating that they were mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptors.
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9622238 Kira T, Harata N, Sakata T, Akaike N: Kinetics of sevoflurane action on GABA- and glycine-induced currents in acutely dissociated rat hippocampal neurons. Neuroscience. 1998 Jul;85(2):383-94.

Effects of a new kind of volatile anaesthetics, sevoflurane, on GABA- and glycine-gated chloride current (ICl) were examined in single pyramidal neurons acutely dissociated from the rat hippocampal CA1 region, using the voltage-clamp mode of the nystatin-perforated patch-clamp technique.
Pretreatment with 3 x 10 (-8) M strychnine markedly prolonged the time to peak of the glycine-induced ICl.
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11850512 Mori M, Gahwiler BH, Gerber U: Beta-alanine and taurine as endogenous agonists at glycine receptors in rat hippocampus in vitro. J Physiol. 2002 Feb 15;539(Pt 1):191-200.

In the presence of ionotropic glutamate and GABA (B) receptor antagonists, pressure-application of glycine onto CA3 pyramidal cells induced a current associated with increased chloride conductance, which was inhibited by strychnine.
Whole-cell glycine responses were significantly greater in CA3 pyramidal cells than in CA1 pyramidal cells and dentate granule cells, while responses to GABA were similar among these three cell types.
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8558460 Shimizu-Sasamata M, Kawasaki-Yatsugi S, Okada M, Sakamoto S, Yatsugi S, Togami J, Hatanaka K, Ohmori J, Koshiya K, Usuda S, Murase K: YM90K: pharmacological characterization as a selective and potent alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate/kainate receptor antagonist. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1996 Jan;276(1):84-92.

YM90K selectively displaced [3H]-AMPA binding (Ki = 0.084 microM) and was less potent in inhibiting [3H]-kainate (Ki = 2.2 microM), [3H]-L-glutamate (N-methyl-D-aspartate-sensitive site; Ki > 100 microM) and [3H]-glycine (strychnine-insensitive site; Ki = 37 microM) binding to rat brain membranes.
In a global ischemia model, YM90K (15 mg/kg i.p. x 3), NBQX (30 mg/kg i.p. x 3) and CNQX (60 mg/kg i.p. x 3) significantly prevented the delayed neuronal death in the hippocampal CA1 region in Mongolian gerbils when administered 1 h after 5-min ischemia.
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7893259 Dimpfel W: Effects of memantine on synaptic transmission in the hippocampus in vitro. Arzneimittelforschung. 1995 Jan;45(1):1-5.

CA1 pyramidal cell response (population spike) in the hippocampal slice preparation was monitored after electrical stimulation of the Schaffer collaterals at CA2 in the presence of different concentrations of memantine (1-amino-3,5-dimethyladamantane, Akatinol Memantine, CAS 41100-52-1) currently being prescribed for the treatment of e.g. dementia.
The concentration dependent action of D-serine, an agonist acting at the strychnine insensitive glycine-site of the NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspartic acid) receptor was enhanced in the presence of 1 mumol/l of memantine.
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15288514 Peterson SL, Purvis RS, Griffith JW: Differential neuroprotective effects of the NMDA receptor-associated glycine site partial agonists 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid (ACPC) and D-cycloserine in lithium-pilocarpine status epilepticus. Neurotoxicology. 2004 Sep;25(5):835-47.

The present study determined whether 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid (ACPC) or D-cycloserine (DCS), both partial agonists of the strychnine-insensitive glycine site on the NMDA receptor ionophore complex, exerted anticonvulsant or neuroprotectant activity in Li-pilo SE.
ACPC administered 5 min after SE onset produced significant neuroprotection in cortical regions, amygdala and CA1 of the hippocampus.
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16631121 Zhang LH, Xu L, Xu TL: Glycine receptor activation regulates short-term plasticity in CA1 area of hippocampal slices of rats. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 Jun 9;344(3):721-6. Epub 2006 Apr 17.

Moreover, glycine application increased the paired-pulse ratio (PPR) of PSCs significantly, an effect largely abolished by the GlyR specific antagonist strychnine.
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10082275 Ren J, Ye JH, Liu PL, Krnjevic K, McArdle JJ: Cocaine decreases the glycine-induced Cl- current of acutely dissociated rat hippocampal neurons. Eur J Pharmacol. 1999 Feb 12;367(1):125-30.

The effects of cocaine on glycine-induced Cl- current (I (GLY)) of single neurons, freshly isolated from the rat hippocampal CA1 area, were studied with conventional whole-cell recording under voltage-clamp conditions.
The cocaine suppression of I (GLY) was unaffected by 1 microM tetrodotoxin and 1 microM strychnine.
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9004347 Kawasaki K, Eigyo M, Ikeda M, Kihara T, Koike K, Matsushita A, Murata S, Shiomi T, Takada S, Yasui M: A novel benzodiazepine inverse agonist, S-8510, as a cognitive enhancer. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 1996 Nov;20(8):1413-25.

S-8510 augmented LTP of the Schaffer collateral/commissural fiber-CA1 synapses in the hippocampal slice preparations of SD rat. 5.
S-8510 selectively potentiated pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsion without affecting minimal electroconvulsive shock- or strychnine-induced convulsion in ddY mice. 7.
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7957739 Wamsley JK, Sofia RD, Faull RL, Narang N, Ary T, McCabe RT: Interaction of felbamate with [3H] DCKA-labeled strychnine-insensitive glycine receptors in human postmortem brain. Exp Neurol. 1994 Oct;129(2):244-50.

In many regions, [3H] DCKA binding was reduced to background in the presence of felbamate, but some areas retained binding by as much as 41% (i.e., the CA2 region of the hippocampus).
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9114240 Luckermann M, Trapp S, Ballanyi K: GABA- and glycine-mediated fall of intracellular pH in rat medullary neurons in situ. J Neurophysiol. 1997 Apr;77(4):1844-52.

These responses were abolished by 10-100 microM strychnine.
Dialysis of the cells with 15-30 microM carbonic anhydrase led to an acceleration of the kinetics and a potentiation of the GABA-induced pHi decrease.
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8786846 Jones MG, Szatkowski MS: The role of glycine in anoxia/aglycaemia-induced potentiation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated postsynaptic potentials in the rat hippocampus. Neurosci Lett. 1995 Dec 15;201(3):227-30.

Addition of large saturating concentrations of glycine (100 microM and 1 mM) to the superfusate resulted in increased extracellularly recorded NMDA receptor-mediated components of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) recorded in area CA1.
The effects of added glycine were strychnine-insensitive and blocked by a competitive NMDA antagonist.
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