Block of NMDA receptor channels by endogenous neurosteroids: implications for the agonist induced conformational states of the channel vestibule [PDF]
, 2015 N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) mediate synaptic plasticity, and their dysfunction is implicated in multiple brain disorders. NMDARs can be allosterically modulated by numerous compounds, including endogenous neurosteroid pregnanolone sulfate ...
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High-throughput screening in larval zebrafish identifies novel potent sedative-hypnotics [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Many general anesthetics were discovered empirically, but primary screens to find new sedative-hypnotics in drug libraries have not used animals, limiting the types of drugs discovered.
Brown, Lauren E. +12 more
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Glycine-dependent activation of NMDA receptors
The Journal of General Physiology, 2015 Results from single-molecule and macroscopic electrophysiology and kinetic analysis provide a model for activation of the glutamate-bound NMDA receptor by glycine.
Kirstie A. Cummings, G. Popescu
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BMC Neurology, 2012 Background The mammalian neurological disorder hereditary hyperekplexia can be attributed to various mutations of strychnine sensitive glycine receptors.
de la Roche Jeanne +6 more
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New immunolatex spheres: visual markers of antigens on lymphocytes for scanning electron microscopy [PDF]
, 1975 New immunochemical reagents consisting of antibodies bound to small latex spheres were used as visual markers for the detection and localization of cell surface antigens by scanning electron microscopy.
Dreyer, William J. +3 more
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New Therapeutic Strategy for Amino Acid Medicine: Glycine Improves the Quality of Sleep
Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2012 Glycine is a non-essential amino acid that has indispensable roles in both excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission via N-methyl-D-aspartate type glutamate receptors and glycine receptors, respectively.
Makoto Bannai, Nobuhiro Kawai
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Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2023 The NMDA subtype of glutamate receptor serves as an attractive drug target for the treatment of disorders evolving from hyper‐ or hypoglutamatergic conditions.
Seth C. Boehringer +4 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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Illumination of a progressive allosteric mechanism mediating the glycine receptor activation
Nature Communications, 2023 Glycine receptors are channel receptors mediating signal transduction between neurons that transit between resting and open states upon neurotransmitter binding.
Sophie Shi +8 more
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Identifying functional populations among the interneurons in laminae I-III of the spinal dorsal horn [PDF]
, 2017 The spinal dorsal horn receives input from primary afferent axons, which terminate in a modality-specific fashion in different laminae. The incoming somatosensory information is processed through complex synaptic circuits involving excitatory and ...
Todd, Andrew J.
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