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 …

Mechanisms of ketamine action as an antidepressant

P Zanos, TD Gould - Molecular psychiatry, 2018 - nature.com
Clinical studies have demonstrated that a single sub-anesthetic dose of the dissociative
anesthetic ketamine induces rapid and sustained antidepressant actions. Although this …

The role of NMDA receptors in Alzheimer's disease

J Liu, L Chang, Y Song, H Li, Y Wu - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), early synaptic dysfunction is associated with the increased
oligomeric amyloid-beta peptide, which causes NMDAR-dependent synaptic depression …

Hippocampal GABAergic inhibitory interneurons

KA Pelkey, R Chittajallu, MT Craig… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
In the hippocampus GABAergic local circuit inhibitory interneurons represent only~ 10–15%
of the total neuronal population; however, their remarkable anatomical and physiological …

The stressed synapse 2.0: pathophysiological mechanisms in stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders

G Sanacora, Z Yan, M Popoli - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Stress is a primary risk factor for several neuropsychiatric disorders. Evidence from
preclinical models and clinical studies of depression have revealed an array of structural …

Ion channels in genetic epilepsy: from genes and mechanisms to disease-targeted therapies

J Oyrer, S Maljevic, IE Scheffer, SF Berkovic… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a common and serious neurologic disease with a strong genetic component.
Genetic studies have identified an increasing collection of disease-causing genes. The …

Therapeutic potential of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor modulators in psychiatry

JE Hanson, H Yuan, RE Perszyk, TG Banke… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors mediate a slow component of excitatory
synaptic transmission, are widely distributed throughout the central nervous system, and …

Regulation of NMDA glutamate receptor functions by the GluN2 subunits

M Vieira, XLH Yong, KW Roche… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate receptors that
mediate the flux of calcium (Ca2+) into the post‐synaptic compartment. Ca2+ influx …

NMDA receptors in the central nervous system

KB Hansen, F Yi, RE Perszyk, FS Menniti… - … receptors: Methods and …, 2017 - Springer
NMDA-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate a major
component of excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system (CNS). They are …

Elimination of the four extracellular matrix molecules tenascin-C, tenascin-R, brevican and neurocan alters the ratio of excitatory and inhibitory synapses

C Gottschling, D Wegrzyn, B Denecke, A Faissner - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain is not limited to the interplay between the
pre-and the postsynapse of neurons, but involves also astrocytes as well as extracellular …