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The DLGAP family: neuronal expression, function and role in brain disorders
Molecular Brain, 2017 The neurotransmitter glutamate facilitates neuronal signalling at excitatory synapses. Glutamate is released from the presynaptic membrane into the synaptic cleft.
Andreas H. Rasmussen +2 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2019 In the face of chronic changes in incoming sensory inputs, neuronal networks are capable of maintaining stable conditions of electrical activity over prolonged periods of time by adjusting synaptic strength, to amplify or dampen incoming inputs ...
Lorenzo A. Cingolani +6 more
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Emerging Trends in Pain Modulation by Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2019 Pain is an essential protective mechanism meant to prevent tissue damages in organisms. On the other hand, chronic or persistent pain caused, for example, by inflammation or nerve injury is long lasting and responsible for long-term disability in ...
Vanessa Pereira, C. Goudet
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Phased Treatment Strategies for Cerebral Ischemia Based on Glutamate Receptors
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2019 Extracellular glutamate accumulation following cerebral ischemia leads to overactivation of glutamate receptors, thereby resulting in intracellular Ca2+ overload and excitotoxic neuronal injury. Multiple attempts have been made to counteract such effects
Yongjun Sun +8 more
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Conformational pathway provides unique sensitivity to a synaptic mGluR
Nature Communications, 2019 Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are dimeric G-protein–coupled receptors that operate at neural synapses. Here authors use FRET assays in live cells to monitor mGluR2/7’s activation and reveal how heterodimerization can alter the glutamate ...
Chris H. Habrian +7 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015 Although glutamate is one of the most important excitatory neurotransmitters of the central nervous system, its excessive extracellular concentration leads to uncontrolled continuous depolarization of neurons, a toxic process called, excitotoxicity.
Aristeidis eKritis +3 more
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A mechanistic overview of approaches for the treatment of psychostimulant dependence
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Psychostimulant use disorder is a major health issue around the world with enormous individual, family-related and societal consequences, yet there are no effective pharmacological treatments available.
Kathrine Louise Jensen +2 more
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Non-canonical Mechanisms of Presynaptic Kainate Receptors Controlling Glutamate Release
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2018 A metabotropic modus operandi for kainate receptors (KARs) was first discovered in 1998 modulating GABA release. These receptors have been also found to modulate glutamate release at different synapses in several brain regions. Mechanistically, a general
José V. Negrete-Díaz +4 more
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Cell Death and Disease, 2021 Glioblastoma (GBM), the most malignant tumor of the central nervous system, is marked by its dynamic response to microenvironmental niches. In particular, this cellular plasticity contributes to the development of an immediate resistance during tumor ...
Julian P. Maier +17 more
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Targeting metabotropic glutamate receptors for novel treatments of schizophrenia
Molecular Brain, 2017 Support for the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) hypofunction hypothesis of schizophrenia has led to increasing focus on restoring proper glutamatergic signaling as an approach for treatment of this devastating disease.
James Maksymetz +2 more
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