Metabotropic glutamate receptors: Electrical and chemical signaling properties

Neuroscientist

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 551-561

  Coutinho, Victoria ^a   Knöpfel, Thomas ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Glutamate; Metabotropic glutamate receptors; Sodium; Synaptic signaling

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

BRAIN REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EXCITATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES;

EID: 0036893246     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858402238514     Document Type: Review

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