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Colorado State University

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Researchers at CSU engineered recombinant enzymes that produce GABA in the nuclei (cyan) of human neurons (magenta) co-cultured with astrocytes (blue). This system was used to test whether nuclear GABA synthesis can drive GABA release from synapses (yellow) located at distant sites.

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Colorado State University College of Natural Sciences

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