Organization of N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate glutamate receptor gene expression in the basal ganglia of the rat

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Glutamate is an important neurotransmitter in the circuitry of the basal ganglia. Of the four pharmacological classes of receptors that may mediate the actions of glutamate, the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type is of particular interest insofar as it has been implicated in the neural processes underlying long-term synaptic plasticity as well as excitotoxic injury. NMDA ligand binding sites are abundant in the...

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