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Is ethanol meant to be the natural exogenous ligand for the gaba receptor?
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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.
Answered 2/18/2015
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