Unmasking group III metabotropic glutamate autoreceptor function at excitatory synapses in the rat CNS

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 565, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 885-896

  Billups, Brian ^a   Graham, Bruce P ^b   Wong, Adrian Y C ^a,c   Forsythe, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA CYCLOPROPYL 4 PHOSPHONOPHENYLGLYCINE; AUTORECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLIC CAPACITY; MODULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; RECORDING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CALCIUM CURRENT; FACILITATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; AUTORECEPTORS; BRAIN STEM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLYCINE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 21344449778     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.086736     Document Type: Article

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