“…Another separate site is the metabotropic receptor, which has a very different pharmacological profile most notably distinguished by potent action of L-AP3 at the metabotropic site without significant displacement of [ 3 HIAP4 (Butcher et al, 1983;Monaghan et al, 1983) or [ 3H]NAAG (Schoepp and Johnson, 1989). Another site, termed the AN receptor, is responsible for synaptic inhibition at a variety of sites in the brain (Bridges et al, 1986), but again, is pharmacologically distinguished from both the [ 3H]AP4 binding site and the metabotropic receptor by inactivity of QA at the AN receptor (Bridges et al, 1986;Forsythe and Clements, 1990), despite the high potency of QA in the other two systems (Butcher et al, 1983;Adamson et a!., 1990).…”