Structure, function, and pharmacology of glutamate receptor ion channels

KB Hansen, LP Wollmuth, D Bowie, H Furukawa… - Pharmacological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Many physiologic effects of l-glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the
mammalian central nervous system, are mediated via signaling by ionotropic glutamate …

General pathways of pain sensation and the major neurotransmitters involved in pain regulation

MF Yam, YC Loh, CS Tan, S Khadijah Adam… - International journal of …, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Pain has been considered as a concept of sensation that we feel as a reaction to the
stimulus of our surrounding, putting us in harm's way and acting as a form of defense …

Structure, function, and allosteric modulation of NMDA receptors

KB Hansen, F Yi, RE Perszyk, H Furukawa… - Journal of General …, 2018‏ - rupress.org
NMDA-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate a Ca2+-
permeable component of excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system (CNS) …

NMDA receptor subunit diversity: impact on receptor properties, synaptic plasticity and disease

P Paoletti, C Bellone, Q Zhou - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013‏ - nature.com
NMDA receptors (NMDARs) are glutamate-gated ion channels and are crucial for neuronal
communication. NMDARs form tetrameric complexes that consist of several homologous …

Glutamate and GABA imbalance following traumatic brain injury

RM Guerriero, CC Giza, A Rotenberg - Current neurology and …, 2015‏ - Springer
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to multiple short-and long-term changes in neuronal
circuits that ultimately conclude with an imbalance of cortical excitation and inhibition …

Crystal structure of a heterotetrameric NMDA receptor ion channel

E Karakas, H Furukawa - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
N-Methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors belong to the family of ionotropic glutamate
receptors, which mediate most excitatory synaptic transmission in mammalian brains …

Glutamate receptor ion channels: structure, regulation, and function

SF Traynelis, LP Wollmuth, CJ McBain, FS Menniti… - Pharmacological …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The mammalian ionotropic glutamate receptor family encodes 18 gene products that
coassemble to form ligand-gated ion channels containing an agonist recognition site, a …

NMDA receptor structures reveal subunit arrangement and pore architecture

CH Lee, W Lü, JC Michel, A Goehring, J Du, X Song… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Abstract N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are Hebbian-like coincidence detectors,
requiring binding of glycine and glutamate in combination with the relief of voltage …

Polyamines: bio-molecules with diverse functions in plant and human health and disease

AK Handa, T Fatima, AK Mattoo - Frontiers in chemistry, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Biogenic amines—polyamines (PAs), particularly putrescine, spermidine and spermine are
ubiquitous in all living cells. Their indispensable roles in many biochemical and …

X-ray structure, symmetry and mechanism of an AMPA-subtype glutamate receptor

AI Sobolevsky, MP Rosconi, E Gouaux - Nature, 2009‏ - nature.com
Ionotropic glutamate receptors mediate most excitatory neurotransmission in the central
nervous system and function by opening a transmembrane ion channel upon binding of …