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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2016 NMDA receptors are Ca2+-permeable ion channels. The activation of NMDA receptors requires agonist glutamate and co-agonist glycine. Recent evidence indicates that NMDA receptor also has metabotropic function.
Li-Jun Li +15 more
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Unmasking GluN1/GluN3A excitatory glycine NMDA receptors
Nature Communications, 2018 Excitatory glycine GluN1/GluN3A receptors are atypical NMDARs that have been difficult to study. Here the authors identify new properties of these receptors, including potentiation by the GluN1 antagonist CGP-78608 that allows detection of functional ...
Teddy Grand +4 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2018 Glycine and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are the major determinants of inhibition in the central nervous system (CNS). These neurotransmitters target glycine and GABAA receptors, respectively, which both belong to the Cys-loop superfamily of pentameric ...
Vikram B. Kasaragod, Hermann Schindelin
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Inhibitory Glycine Receptors: An Update [PDF]
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 Strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors (GlyRs) mediate synaptic inhibition in the spinal cord, brainstem, and other regions of the mammalian central nervous system. In this minireview, we summarize our current view of the structure, ligand-binding sites, and chloride channel of these receptors and discuss recently emerging functions of distinct GlyR ...
Dutertre, Sebastien +2 more
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Mechanisms of activation and desensitization of full-length glycine receptor in lipid nanodiscs
Nature Communications, 2020 Glycinergic synapses play a central role in motor control and pain processing in the central nervous system. Here, authors present cryo-EM structures of the full-length glycine receptors (GlyRs) reconstituted into lipid nanodiscs in the unliganded ...
Arvind Kumar +6 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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Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2011 The flow of cortical information through the basal ganglia is a complex spatiotemporal pattern of increased and decreased firing. The striatum is the biggest input nucleus to the basal ganglia and the aim of this study was to assess the role of ...
Louise eAdermark +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2011 Accumbal glycine modulates basal and ethanol-induced dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens (nAc) as well as voluntary ethanol consumption. Also, systemic administration of the glycine transporter-1 inhibitor Org25935 elevates dopamine levels in nAc ...
Helga eHöifödt Lidö +4 more
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Allosteric modulation of glycine receptors
British journal of pharmacology, 2011 Inhibitory (or strychnine sensitive) glycine receptors (GlyRs) are anion-selective transmitter-gated ion channels of the cys-loop superfamily, which includes among others also the inhibitory γ-aminobutyric acid receptors (GABA(A) receptors). While GABA mediates fast inhibitory neurotransmission throughout the CNS, the action of glycine as a fast ...
Yévenes, G E, Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich
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Opposing actions of sevoflurane on GABAergic and glycinergic synaptic inhibition in the spinal ventral horn. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: The ventral horn is a major substrate in mediating the immobilizing properties of the volatile anesthetic sevoflurane in the spinal cord. In this neuronal network, action potential firing is controlled by GABA(A) and glycine receptors.
Veit-Simon Eckle +4 more
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