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List the criteria that are used to determine whether a chemical serves as a neurotransmitter. What are the various experimental strategies you could use to show that ACh fulfills the criteria of a neurotransmitter at the neuromuscular junction?

How does nerve gas lead to respiratory paralysis?

What are the effects of strychnine on glycine receptors?

How can electrophysiological measurements be used to study synaptic responses?

What is the patch clamp technique, and why is it important in neuroscience?

How do GABA and glycine function as inhibitory neurotransmitters?

What are the different types of neurotransmitters?

How does shunting inhibition affect neuronal excitability?

What is quantal analysis, and how is it used to study synaptic transmission?

How do excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials differ?