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Bicuculline, a specific GABA antagonist, diminishes basket cell inhibition of hippocampal pyramidal neurones, an inhibition which is not affected by strychnine.The inhibitory transmitter released by basket cells is thus probably GABA.
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Curtis et al. (1970) studied this question.
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