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Provides association constant and three references for further research.

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I found some information about GABA binding and dissociation in this paper:

Yongchang Chang & David S. Weiss, Channel opening locks agonist onto the GABAC receptor, Nature Neuroscience, March 1999 Volume 2 Number 3 pp 219 - 225

They worked on GABAc receptors and calculated ...

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