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We found a spontaneously firing neurone, inhibited by β-hydroxy(erythro)-l-glutamic acid, identified in the subesophageal ganglia of an African giant snail (Achatina fulica Férussac), although this neurone is not sensitive tol-glutamic acid. We suggest that β-hydroxy(erythro)-l-glutamic acid may be a putative inhibitory synaptic transmitter of the identified molluscan neurone.
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Takeuchi, H., Yokoi, I., Mori, A. et al. Inhibitory effect of β-hydroxyglutamic acid on a molluscan giant neurone. Experientia 31, 1417–1418 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01923220
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