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Stargazin Dephosphorylation Mediates Homeostatic Synaptic Downscaling of Excitatory Synapses
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2018 Synaptic scaling is a form of homeostatic plasticity that is critical for maintaining neuronal activity within a dynamic range, and which alters synaptic strength through changes in postsynaptic AMPA-type glutamate receptors.
Susana R. Louros +3 more
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Acute inactivation of PSD-95 destabilizes AMPA receptors at hippocampal synapses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Postsynatptic density protein (PSD-95) is a 95 kDa scaffolding protein that assembles signaling complexes at synapses. Over-expression of PSD-95 in primary hippocampal neurons selectively increases synaptic localization of AMPA receptors; however, mice ...
Guillermo A Yudowski +4 more
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PhotonSABER: new tool shedding light on endocytosis and learning mechanisms in vivo
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2019 In the central nervous system, activity-dependent endocytosis of postsynaptic AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPA receptors) is thought to mediate long-term depression (LTD), which is a synaptic plasticity model in various neuronal circuits.
Shinji Matsuda +2 more
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AMPA and Kainate Receptors Each Mediate Excitotoxicity in Oligodendroglial Cultures
Neurobiology of Disease, 1999 Recent studies indicate that oligodendrocytes are vulnerable to excitotoxic insults mediated by glutamate receptors. The present study was carried out to characterize the type of glutamate receptors triggering cell death in optic nerve oligodendrocyte ...
Maria Victoria Sánchez-Gómez +1 more
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Intracellular machinery for the transport of AMPA receptors [PDF]
British Journal of Pharmacology, 2008 AMPA‐type glutamate receptors are one of the most dynamic components of excitatory synapses. Their regulated addition and removal from synapses leads to long‐lasting forms of synaptic plasticity, known as long‐term potentiation (LTP) and long‐term depression (LTD).
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Differential modulation of NMDA and AMPA receptors by cellular prion protein and copper ions
Molecular Brain, 2018 N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors (AMPARs) are two major types of ionotropic glutamate receptors involved in synaptic transmission.
Sun Huang +4 more
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Downregulation of GluA2 AMPA receptor subunits reduces the dendritic arborization of developing spinal motoneurons. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 AMPA receptors lacking the GluA2 subunit allow a significant influx of Ca(2+) ions. Although Ca(2+)-permeable AMPA receptors are a familiar feature at early stages of development, the functional significance of these receptors during the maturation of ...
Yone J Yoon +4 more
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Müller Glial Cells Participate in Retinal Waves via Glutamate Transporters and AMPA Receptors
Cell Reports, 2019 Summary: Retinal waves, the spontaneous patterned neural activities propagating among developing retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), instruct the activity-dependent refinement of visuotopic maps. Although it is known that the wave is initiated successively by
Rong-wei Zhang +3 more
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Cell Reports, 2019 Summary: Myosin VI is an actin-based cytoskeletal motor implicated in various steps of membrane trafficking. Here, we investigated whether this myosin is crucial for synaptic function and plasticity in neurons.
Wolfgang Wagner +12 more
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Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2014 Background: N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propinoic acid (AMPA) receptors bound to postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95) and α isoform of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (αCaMKII) is fundamentally ...
Jong Wan Kim +2 more
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