Glial D-serine gates NMDA receptors at excitatory synapses in prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 595-606

  Fossat, Pascal ^a,b   Turpin, Fabrice R ^a,b   Sacchi, Silvia ^c   Dulong, Jérôme ^a,b   Shi, Ting ^d   Rivet, Jean Michel ^e   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^d   Pollegioni, Loredano ^c   Millan, Mark J ^e   Oliet, Stéphane H R ^a,b   Mothet, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

astrocytes; coagonist; excitatory synapses; NMDA receptors; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO AMINO ACID; FLUOROACETIC ACID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SERINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; NEUROGLIA; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SERINE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84857199050     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr130     Document Type: Article

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