The Glutamate Receptors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gereau, Robert W. (Editor), Swanson, Geoffrey T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: The Receptors
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Physiology.

Glutamate receptors are critically important for normal brain function. The preceding decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the physiological function and molecular structure of these proteins. The Glutamate Receptors provides an expansive review of the field with a topical upd...

Table of Contents:

• AMPA Receptors
• NMDA Receptors
• Kainate Receptors
• Delta Receptors
• Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors in Synaptic Plasticity
• Structural Correlates of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor Function
• Positive Modulators of AMPA-Type Glutamate Receptors
• Clinically Tolerated Strategies for NMDA Receptor Antagonism
• The Structures of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors
• Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors (mGlu1 and mGlu5)
• Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors (mGlu2 and mGlu3)
• Group III Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors (mGlu4, mGlu6, mGlu7, and mGlu8)
• Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity
• Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Ligands as Novel Therapeutic Agents.