The secret life of memory receptors

Elife. 2021 Jul 14:10:e71178. doi: 10.7554/eLife.71178.

Authors

Hovy Ho-Wai Wong¹, Olivier Camiré¹, P Jesper Sjöström¹

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Research in Neuroscience, Department of Medicine, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.

Abstract

The canonical hippocampal NMDA memory receptor also controls the release of the transmitter glutamate and the growth factor BDNF.

Keywords: CA3; autoreceptors; hippocampus; ionotropic; mouse; neuroscience; presynaptic calcium; rat.

© 2021, Wong et al.

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MeSH terms

Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists*
Glutamic Acid
Hippocampus / metabolism
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate* / metabolism

Substances

Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
Glutamic Acid