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. 1975 Apr;53(4):473–484. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1975.tb07383.x

Fifth Gaddum Memorial Lecture, University of Bristol, September 1974, The glycine synaptic receptor in the mammalian central nervous system.

S H Snyder
PMCID: PMC1666310  PMID: 1097012

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