Metabotropic glutamate receptors and neurodegenerative diseases

FM Ribeiro, LB Vieira, RGW Pires, RP Olmo… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Glutamate is the most important excitatory neurotransmitter of the mammalian central
nervous system (CNS), playing an important role in memory, synaptic plasticity and neuronal …

Glutamate and the biology of gliomas

J de Groot, H Sontheimer - Glia, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Several important and previously unrecognized roles for the neurotransmitter glutamate in
the biology of primary brain tumors have recently been elucidated. Glutamate is produced …

Expression and functional role of mGluR3 and mGluR5 in human astrocytes and glioma cells: opposite regulation of glutamate transporter proteins

E Aronica, JA Gorter, H Ijlst‐Keizers… - European Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the regulation of glutamate transporter protein expression after stimulation
with selective metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonists in cultured human glial …

Glutamate and its receptors in cancer

A Stepulak, R Rola, K Polberg… - Journal of neural …, 2014 - Springer
Glutamate, a nonessential amino acid, is a major bioenergetic substrate for proliferating
normal and neoplastic cells on one hand and an excitatory neurotransmitter that is actively …

Mechanisms of Invasion in Glioblastoma: Extracellular Matrix, Ca2+ Signaling, and Glutamate

JS So, H Kim, KS Han - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and malignant form of primary brain tumor with a
median survival time of 14–16 months in GBM patients. Surgical treatment with …

Metabotropic glutamate receptor ligands as potential therapeutics for addiction

MF Olive - Current drug abuse reviews, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
There is now compelling evidence that the excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter glutamate
plays a pivotal role in drug addiction and alcoholism. As a result, there has been increasing …

Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor signalling and its implication in neurological disease

F M. Ribeiro, M Paquet, S P. Cregan… - CNS & Neurological …, 2010 - benthamdirect.com
Stimulation of Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR1 and mGluR5) leads to
activation of a wide variety of signalling pathways. mGluRs couple to Gαq/11 proteins …

The high-affinity glutamate transporters GLT1, GLAST, and EAAT4 are regulated via different signalling mechanisms

G Gegelashvili, Y Dehnes, NC Danbolt… - Neurochemistry …, 2000 - Elsevier
High-affinity glutamate transporters ensure termination of glutamatergic neurotransmission
and keep the synaptic concentration of this amino acid below excitotoxic levels. However …

Ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptor protein expression in glioneuronal tumours from patients with intractable epilepsy

E Aronica, B Yankaya, GH Jansen… - Neuropathology and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Glioneuronal tumours are an increasingly recognized cause of chronic pharmaco‐resistant
epilepsy. In the present study the immunocytochemical expression of various glutamate …

Metabotropic glutamate receptors in glial cells

S D'Antoni, A Berretta, CM Bonaccorso, V Bruno… - Neurochemical …, 2008 - Springer
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system
(CNS) and exerts its actions via a number of ionotropic glutamate receptors/channels and …