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D5 dopamine receptors enhance Zn2+-sensitive GABA(A) currents in striatal cholinergic interneurons through a PKA/PP1

Z Yan1, D J Surmeier

  • 1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163, USA.

Neuron
|December 9, 1997
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