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The role of L-glutamate in neuromuscular transmission in some molluscs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Q. Bone  and
J. V. Howarth
Q. Bone
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
J. V. Howarth
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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L-glutamate is shown to have excitatory effects on muscles of the lamellibranch, Pecten and of several cephalopods. These effects are reversibly blocked by known glutamate antagonists. In Pecten intracellular electrical recording revealed a similarity between the effects of topically applied glutamate and nerve stimulation.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , August 1980 , pp. 619 - 626
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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