Learning from NMDA receptor trafficking: Clues to the development and maturation of glutamatergic synapses

NeuroSignals

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 175-189

  Pérez Otaño, Isabel ^a   Ehlers, Michael D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Development, brain; Endocytic cycling; Glutamatergic synapse; NMDA receptor; Trafficking, receptor

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GOLGI COMPLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES;

EID: 2542612948     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077524     Document Type: Review

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