Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Errington, Adam C. (Editor), Di Giovanni, Giuseppe (Editor), Crunelli, Vincenzo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The Receptors ; 27
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Neurology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

GABA is the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS and acts via GABAA and GABAB receptors. Recently, a novel form of GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition, termed “tonic” inhibition, has been described. Whereas synaptic GABAA receptors underlie classical “phasic” GABAA receptor-mediated inhib...