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Synaptic kainate receptors

Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2000
Kainate receptors are a family of ionotropic glutamate receptors with poorly understood functions. Recent evidence firmly establishes kainate receptors as postsynaptic mediators of synaptic transmission. A second, presynaptic, modulatory role of kainate receptors has also been suggested, although the mechanism(s) involved remain controversial.
M, Frerking, R A, Nicoll
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Kainate receptors in the hippocampus

European Journal of Neuroscience, 2014
AbstractKainate receptors (KARs) consist of a family of ionotropic glutamate receptors composed of the combinations of five subunits, GluK1–GluK5. Although KARs display close structural homology with AMPA receptors, they serve quite distinct functions.
Mario, Carta   +3 more
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Hippocampal Kainate Receptors

2010
Glutamate is the major fast excitatory amino acid transmitter in the CNS, and exerts its action through receptors that function as ion channels such as NMDA receptors (NMDARs), AMPA receptors (AMPARs), and kainate receptors (KARs), and also through signaling cascades via metabotropic receptors.
Erik B, Bloss, Richard G, Hunter
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Role of kainate receptors in nociception

Brain Research Reviews, 2002
Nociceptive nerve fibers use L-glutamate as a fast excitatory neurotransmitter and it is therefore not surprising that both, ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors play pivotal roles for transmission of nociceptive information in spinal cord.
Ruth, Ruscheweyh, Jürgen, Sandkühler
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Physiopathology of kainate receptors in epilepsy

Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 2015
Kainate receptors (KARs) are tetrameric ionotropic glutamate receptors composed of the combinations of five subunits GluK1-GluK5. KARs are structurally related to AMPA receptors but they serve quite distinct functions by regulating the activity of synaptic circuits at presynaptic and postsynaptic sites, through either ionotropic or metabotropic actions.
Valérie, Crépel, Christophe, Mulle
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Kainate Receptors

The Neuroscientist, 2013
Ionotropic glutamate receptors of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)- and AMPA-type, as well as metabotropic glutamate receptors have been extensively invoked in plasticity. Until relatively recently, however, kainate-type receptors (KARs) had been the most elusive to study because of the lack of appropriate pharmacological tools to specifically address ...
Talvinder S, Sihra   +2 more
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The synaptic activation of kainate receptors

Nature, 1997
L-Glutamate, the principal excitatory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate central nervous system, acts on three classes of ionotropic glutamate receptors, named after the agonists AMPA, NMDA and kainate. AMPA receptors are known to mediate fast synaptic responses and NMDA receptors to mediate slow synaptic responses at most excitatory synapses in the ...
Vignes, M., Collingridge, G. L.
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Kainate receptors and synaptic plasticity

Nature, 2000
Bortolotto et al.1 report that the kainate subtype of glutamate receptor is essential for the plasticity of certain types of synaptic transmission in the brain, which is of interest as these receptors were previously not thought to initiate plastic processes. In particular, a new antagonist (LY382884) was shown to act selectively against the GluR5 type
R A, Nicoll   +3 more
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Structural biology of kainate receptors

Neuropharmacology, 2021
This review summarizes structural studies on kainate receptors that explain unique functional properties of this receptor family. A large number of structures have been solved for ligand binding domain dimer assemblies, giving insight into the subtype selective pharmacology of agonists, antagonists, and allosteric modulators. Structures and biochemical
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Synaptic plasticity of kainate receptors

Biochemical Society Transactions, 2006
Synaptic plasticity of ionotropic glutamate receptors has been extensively studied with a particular focus on the role played by NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors in the induction of synaptic plasticity and the subsequent movement of AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid) receptors.
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