Glutamate Receptors
Glutamate Receptors
This lecture gives an overview of glutamatergic transmission.
Topics covered in this lesson
- Glutamatergic excitatory synaptic transmission
- Ionotropic glutamate receptors
- AMPA and NMDA receptors
- Measuring kinetics of ligand-gated ion channels
- Current-voltage relationships for AMPA and NMDA receptors
- Voltage-dependent magnesium block of NMDA receptors
- AMPA receptor diversity and nomenclature
- Kainate receptors
- NMDA receptor diversity
- Metabotropic glutamate receptors
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