Article
Characterization of alternatively spliced isoforms of AMPA receptor subunits encoding truncated receptors.
Molecular and cellular neurosciences - 1 Feb 2008
Gomes André R, Ferreira Joana S, Paternain Ana V, Lerma Juan, Duarte Carlos B, Carvalho Ana Luísa
Abstract excerpt
Glutamate receptors of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-type play an important role in synaptic plasticity and contribute to cell death under excitotoxic conditions. AMPA receptors form heterotetramers of four homologous subunits (GluR1-4), which exist in two functionally different isoforms, flip and flop, generated by alternative splicing. We identified transcripts for...
Topics
- Alternative Splicing
- Animals
- Cell Death
- Cell Line
- Cells, Cultured
- Chick Embryo
- Cytoprotection
- Epilepsy
- Glutamic Acid
- Hippocampus
- Humans
