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TETANUS toxin is thought to act by suppressing synaptic inhibition1, and presumably it acts upon some substance at the inhibitory synapses in the grey matter of nervous tissue. As a possible approach to discovering the nature of this substance, the well-known Wassermann–Takaki phenomenon2, that is, the fixation of tetanus toxin by the grey matter of nervous tissue, has been re-investigated.
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VAN HEYNINGEN, W. Identity of the Tetanus Toxin Receptor in Nervous Tissue. Nature 182, 1809 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821809a0
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