Structure, function, and pharmacology of glutamate receptor ion channels

KB Hansen, LP Wollmuth, D Bowie, H Furukawa… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - ASPET
Many physiologic effects of l-glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the
mammalian central nervous system, are mediated via signaling by ionotropic glutamate …

The glutamate receptor ion channels

R Dingledine, K Borges, D Bowie, SF Traynelis - Pharmacological reviews, 1999 - ASPET
The ionotropic glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate the vast
majority of excitatory neurotransmission in the brain. The cloning of cDNAs encoding …

Importance of AMPA receptors for hippocampal synaptic plasticity but not for spatial learning

D Zamanillo, R Sprengel, Ø Hvalby, V Jensen… - Science, 1999 - science.org
Gene-targeted mice lacking thel-α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate
(AMPA) receptor subunit GluR-A exhibited normal development, life expectancy, and fine …

[HTML][HTML] Cell type and pathway dependence of synaptic AMPA receptor number and variability in the hippocampus

Z Nusser, R Lujan, G Laube, JDB Roberts, E Molnar… - Neuron, 1998 - cell.com
It has been suggested that some glutamatergic synapses lack functional AMPA receptors.
We used quantitative immunogold localization to determine the number and variability of …

Segregation of different GABAA receptors to synaptic and extrasynaptic membranes of cerebellar granule cells

Z Nusser, W Sieghart, P Somogyi - Journal of Neuroscience, 1998 - Soc Neuroscience
Two types of GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition (phasic and tonic) have been described in
cerebellar granule cells, although these cells receive GABAergic input only from a single cell …

Kinesin superfamily motor protein KIF17 and mLin-10 in NMDA receptor-containing vesicle transport

M Setou, T Nakagawa, DH Seog, N Hirokawa - Science, 2000 - science.org
Experiments with vesicles containing N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor 2B (NR2B
subunit) show that they are transported along microtubules by KIF17, a neuron-specific …

Phosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) and its relevance for the regulation of the neuronal cytoskeleton function

C Sánchez, J Dıaz-Nido, J Avila - Progress in neurobiology, 2000 - Elsevier
Neurons, the basic information processing units of the nervous system, are characterized by
a complex polar morphology which is essential for their function. To attain their precise …

A developmental change in NMDA receptor-associated proteins at hippocampal synapses

N Sans, RS Petralia, YX Wang, J Blahos… - Journal of …, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
The membrane-associated guanylate kinases [Chapsyn-110/postsynaptic density-93 (PSD-
93), synapse-associated protein-90 (SAP-90)/PSD-95, and SAP-102] are believed to cluster …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic analysis of glutamate receptors in Drosophila reveals a retrograde signal regulating presynaptic transmitter release

SA Petersen, RD Fetter, JN Noordermeer… - Neuron, 1997 - cell.com
Postsynaptic sensitivity to glutamate was genetically manipulated at the Drosophila
neuromuscular junction (NMJ) to test whether postsynaptic activity can regulate presynaptic …

Polarized and compartment-dependent distribution of HCN1 in pyramidal cell dendrites

A Lörincz, T Notomi, G Tamás, R Shigemoto… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
An ion channel's function depends largely on its location and density on neurons. Here we
used high-resolution immunolocalization to determine the subcellular distribution of the …