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Is ethanol meant to be the natural exogenous ligand for the gaba receptor?

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Dr. Ravi Chand answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Etoh: Sounds like a technical question.Etoh binds to GABA a receptors and potentiate its effects. Gaba also has many other subtypes so etoh binding cannot be generalized to all GABA receptors.

Dr Pappas and another doctor agreed

Answered 2/18/2015

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