Amino acids integrate behaviors in nerveless placozoans
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Placozoans are the simplest known free-living animals without recognized neurons and muscles but a complex behavioral repertoire. However, mechanisms and cellular bases of behavioral coordination are unknown.
Mikhail A. Nikitin +4 more
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C-Terminal truncation of NR2A subunits impairs synaptic but not extrasynaptic localization of NMDA receptors [PDF]
, 2000 NMDA receptors interact via the extended intracellular C-terminal domain of the NR2 subunits with constituents of the postsynaptic density for purposes of retention, clustering, and functional regulation at central excitatory synapses.
Kennedy, Mary B. +5 more
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Glycine and glycine receptor signalling in non-neuronal cells [PDF]
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2009 Glycine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter acting mainly in the caudal part of the central nervous system. Besides this neurotransmitter function, glycine has cytoprotective and modulatory effects in different non-neuronal cell types. Modulatory effects were mainly described in immune cells, endothelial cells and macroglial cells, where glycine ...
Van den Eynden, J +8 more
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Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2010 Recent evidence indicates that strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors are located in upper brain regions including the hippocampus. Because of excitatory effects of glycine via facilitation of NMDA-receptor function, however, the net effects of increased
Mitsuo Tanabe, Azusa Nitta, Hideki Ono
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Functional modifications of acid-sensing ion channels by ligand-gated chloride channels. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Together, acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) and epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) constitute the majority of voltage-independent sodium channels in mammals. ENaC is regulated by a chloride channel, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (
Xuanmao Chen +3 more
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A quantitative study of inhibitory interneurons in laminae I-III of the mouse spinal dorsal horn [PDF]
, 2013 Laminae I-III of the spinal dorsal horn contain many inhibitory interneurons that use GABA and/or glycine as a neurotransmitter. Distinct neurochemical populations can be recognised among these cells, and these populations are likely to have differing ...
Durrieux, C. +3 more
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Conformational variability of the glycine receptor M2 domain in response to activation by different agonists [PDF]
, 2007 Models describing the structural changes mediating cys-loop receptor activation generally give little attention to the possibility that different agonists may promote activation via distinct M2 pore-lining domain structural rearrangements.
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Serotonin drives a novel GABAergic synaptic current recorded in rat cerebellar purkinje cells: a lugaro cell to purkinje cell synapse [PDF]
, 2003 We recorded a novel fast GABAergic synaptic current in cerebellar Purkinje cells in rat brain slices using patch-clamp techniques. Because of a relatively low sensitivity to bicuculline, these currents can be recorded under conditions in which basket and
Dean, I., Edwards, F.A., Robertson, S.J.
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Effects of NR1 splicing on NR1/NR3B-type excitatory glycine receptors
BMC Neuroscience, 2009 Background N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are the most complex of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs). Subunits of this subfamily assemble into heteromers, which – depending on the subunit combination – may display very different ...
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Neuronal circuitry for pain processing in the dorsal horn [PDF]
, 2010 Neurons in the spinal dorsal horn process sensory information, which is then transmitted to several brain regions, including those responsible for pain perception.
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