[HTML][HTML] Dysfunction of the NMDA Receptor in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia and/or the Pathomechanisms of Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia

R Okubo, M Okada, E Motomura - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
For several decades, the dopamine hypothesis contributed to the discovery of numerous
typical and atypical antipsychotics and was the sole hypothesis for the pathophysiology of …

The Role of Photobiomodulation to Modulate Ion Channels in the Nervous System: A Systematic Review

Z Zhang, Z Zhang, P Liu, X Xue, C Zhang… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Photobiomodulation (PBM) is a safe and effective neurotherapy that modulates cellular
pathways by altering cell membrane potentials, leading to beneficial biological effects such …

Regulation of NMDAR activation efficiency by environmental factors and subunit composition

M He, LP Wollmuth - Journal of General Physiology, 2025 - rupress.org
NMDA receptors (NMDAR) convert the major excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate into a
synaptic signal. A key question is how efficiently the ion channel opens in response to the …

Mechanisms of Action Underlying Conductance-Modifying Positive Allosteric Modulators of the NMDA Receptor

EZ Ullman, RE Perszyk, S Paladugu… - Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate receptors
that mediate a slow, Ca 2+-permeable component of excitatory neurotransmission …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature Sensitive Glutamate Gating of AMPA-subtype iGluRs

AK Mondal, E Carrillo, V Jayaraman, EC Twomey - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are tetrameric ligand-gated ion channels that
mediate the majority of excitatory neurotransmission1. iGluRs are gated by glutamate, where …

A GluN2B disease-associated variant promotes degradation of NMDA receptors via autophagy

TM Benske, MP Williams, PP Zhang, AJ Palumbo, T Mu - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are essential for excitatory neurotransmission
and their pathogenic variants can lead to proteostasis defects and thus neurological …

Atomistic Mechanisms of Calcium Permeation Modulated by Q/R Editing and Selectivity Filter Mutations in GluA2 AMPA Receptors

F Heiser, J Biedermann, E Kuru, A Plested, H Sun - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
GluA2 is a key subunit of AMPA receptor ion channels that is abundantly expressed in the
vertebrate brain. Posttranscriptional Q/R editing of GluA2 renders AMPARs nearly …

Extracellular domains of CATSPERε are essential for CatSper assembly during development and activity modulation in sperm capacitation

JY Hwang, H Wang, G Clouser, JN Oh, SF Finnegan… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The flagellar-specific Ca2+ channel CatSper is a multiprotein complex that is critical for
successful fertilization by controlling the sperm Ca2+ signaling in space and time. Large …

Neurodevelopmental Disorder Due to a Frameshift Mutation in the GRIN2A Gene: A Case Report and Literature Review

C Xu, ML Wang, WH Ling, JH Tang - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background: The GRIN2A gene is known to harbor rare mutations that can lead to
neurodevelopmental disorders with diverse phenotypic presentations. This report describes …