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Inhibitory neurotransmitters such as glycine and GABA make a postsynaptic cell harder to depolarize by allowing what?

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Inhibitory neurotransmitters such as glycine and GABA make a postsynaptic cell harder to depolarize by allowing "an influx of Cl-".

Step-by-step explanation:

The neurotransmitters which have inhibitory influence on the neuron are termed as "Inhibitory neurotransmitters". The major inhibitory neurotransmitters involve serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain and brain stem (spinal cord) respectively.

GABA uptake is temperature and ion-dependent as require both
N a^(+) and
C l^(-). Even glycine transporters are also members of the large family of
N a^(+) / C l^(-) dependent neurotransmitter transporters. Both of them with the GABA transporters share approximately 50% sequence identity.

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