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edited by G. Biggio and E. Costa, 255 pp, $85, New York, NY, Raven Press, 1990.

Jean M. Bidlack, PhD, Reviewer
Rochester, NY

Arch Neurol. 1991;48(11):1114-1115.

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Sixth Capo Boi Conference on Neuroscience, held in Villasimius, Italy, in June 1989. The structural heterogeneity of the -aminobutyric acid (GABA)_A receptor and its possible impact on discrete functional differences between receptor variants is discussed in great detail. The allosteric modulation of the receptor-anion channel function by the benzodiazepine receptor is discussed at the molecular level. During the past 5 years, the progress of our understanding of the GABAergic synaptic function has contributed a structural complexity. Since the GABA_A receptor constitutes subunits, determining its molecular characteristics and how the different subunits interact has been a difficult problem that has just recently been solved. Assessing whether or not all possible combinations of the GABA_A receptor subtypes are expressed and functional is the focus of this volume. The benzodiazepine binding sites are no longer exclusively linked to GABAergic function. With the cloning . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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