GABAergic signaling as therapeutic target for Autism Spectrum Disorders

GABA, the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the adult brain, early in postnatal life exerts a depolarizing and excitatory action. This depends on accumulation of chloride inside the cell via the cation-chloride importer NKCC1, being the expression of the chloride exporter KCC2 very low at birth. T...

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Main Authors: Giada eCellot, Enrico eCherubini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fped.2014.00070/full