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‘High-affinity’ binding mechanisms for glycine exist in synaptosome-enriched preparations of various regions of rat CNS. Such mechanisms may represent interactions of glycine with its synaptic receptors.
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Supported by Centro ‘Ramón y Cajal’ and Fundación Juan March. Thanks are due to Prof. J. M. R. Delgado for organizing research facilities, to Miss Maria Francisca Moya Agudo and Miss Amparo Latorre Caballero for technical assistance, to Mrs Maria Pascual for the art work, and to Miss Gaynor Fox for typing this manuscript.
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DeFeudis, F.V., Fando, J. & Orensanz Muñoz, L.M. ‘High-affinity’ binding sites for glycine in synaptosomal-mitochondrial fractions of rat CNS regions. Experientia 33, 1068–1070 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01945974
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