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The Roles of Glutamate Receptors and Their Antagonists in Status ...


The Roles of Glutamate Receptors and Their Antagonists in Status ...

Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency with a high mortality rate. When compared to chronic epilepsy, it is distinguished by ...

The Roles of Glutamate Receptors and Their Antagonists in Status ...

This review seeks to summarize and update knowledge on the SE development hypothesis, as well as clinical trials using NMDA and AMPA antagonists.

The Role of Glutamate Receptors in Epilepsy - PMC - PubMed Central

There are two main classes of glutamate receptor, namely ionotropic and metabotropic (mGluRs) receptors. The former stimulate fast excitatory neurotransmission, ...

The Roles of Glutamate Receptors and Their Antagonists in Status ...

NMDA and AMPA are ionotropic glutamate receptor families that have important excitatory roles in the central nervous system (CNS). They are both essential in ...

Glutamate Receptor - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

As mentioned earlier, two major classes of ionotropic receptors regulated by STEP include the NMDARs and AMPARs, both of which play major roles in synaptic ...

The role of AMPA receptors and their antagonists in status epilepticus

AMPA receptor antagonists have been shown to terminate seizures in several SE animal models. To date, promising, but limited, data in humans support the use of ...

Glutamate Receptor Antagonist - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

A Glutamate Receptor Antagonist is a compound that blocks the binding of glutamate to its receptor complex recognition site, thereby countering glutamate ...

Glutamate Receptors (Ion Channel Family) - Sigma-Aldrich

The receptor has two amino acid recognition sites, one for glutamate and one for glycine, both of which must be occupied to promote channel opening. Antagonists ...

Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors in Epilepsy: A Review Focusing on ...

... glutamate receptors are the most well studied in terms of their physiological roles. ... AMPA receptor antagonists can terminate status epilepticus in ...

Glutamate receptor - Wikipedia

Glutamate receptors are synaptic and non synaptic receptors located primarily on the membranes of neuronal and glial cells. Glutamate is abundant in the ...

Structure, Function, and Pharmacology of Glutamate Receptor Ion ...

Significance Statement Glutamate receptors play important roles in virtually all aspects of brain function and are either involved in mediating some clinical ...

A Review of Glutamate Receptors I: Current Understanding of Their ...

Glutamate is considered to be the major mediator of excitatory signals in the mammalian central nervous system and is involved in most aspects of normal brain ...

Structure, function, and allosteric modulation of NMDA receptors

NMDA-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate a Ca 2+ -permeable component of excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous ...

Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors: Role in Pain ... - Frontiers

Glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system and plays a critical role in nociceptive processing and pain modulation.

NMDA Receptors and How They're Involved in Disease

... NMDA receptor function (or other aspects of how your brain works). ... NMDA Receptor Antagonists. You're probably more familiar with the ...

Glutamate Antagonists - Parkinson's News Today

Glutamate antagonists work by inhibiting the activity of glutamate receptors in the brain. These receptors are broadly classified into two main ...

Direct effects of metabotropic glutamate receptor compounds on ...

We report that some of the most commonly used mGluR compounds act as antagonists on NMDA receptors at concentrations commonly used to activate or block mGluRs.

(PDF) Introduction to Glutamate Receptors, Their Function and ...

It is now generally agreed that glutamate is the major fast excitatory neurotransmitter in brain. In fact, it is believed that 70% of the excitatory central ...

What are Ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists and how do they ...

These compounds are essential for modulating the activity of the brain's primary excitatory neurotransmitter system, which plays a pivotal role ...

Structural and Functional Architecture of AMPA-Type Glutamate ...

Secreted NTD binders have been reported for AMPARs, yet their role in clustering and receptor anchoring upon LTP induction is currently unclear. GluA1 has ...