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A Molecular Determinant of Subtype-Specific Desensitization in Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 2 Mar 2016
Alsaloum Matthew, Kazi Rashek, Gan Quan, Amin Johansen, Wollmuth Lonnie P
Abstract excerpt
AMPA and NMDA receptors are glutamate-gated ion channels that mediate fast excitatory synaptic transmission throughout the nervous system. In the continual presence of glutamate, AMPA and NMDA receptors containing the GluN2A or GluN2B subunit enter into a nonconducting, desensitized state that can impact synaptic responses and glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity. The process of desensitization is dramatically...
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