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Direct interactions between PSD-95 and stargazin control synaptic AMPA receptor number.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Oct 2002
Schnell Eric, Sizemore Max, Karimzadegan Siavash, Chen Lu, Bredt David S, Nicoll Roger A
Abstract excerpt
Excitatory synapses in the brain exhibit a remarkable degree of functional plasticity, which largely reflects changes in the number of synaptic alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors (AMPARs). However, mechanisms involved in recruiting AMPARs to synapses are unknown. Here we use hippocampal slice cultures and biolistic gene transfections to study the targeting of AMPARs to synapses. We...
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