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    acid receptor (also known as AMPA receptor, AMPAR, or quisqualate receptor) is an ionotropic transmembrane receptor for glutamate (iGluR)...
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    acid, better known as AMPA, is a compound that is a specific agonist for the AMPA receptor, where it mimics the effects of the neurotransmitter...
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  • protein receptors such as NMDA and AMPA receptors. Post-synaptic AMPA receptor: AMPA Receptors are trans-membrane protein ionotropic receptors that open...
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    acid receptor (also known as AMPA receptor, or quisqualate receptor) is a non-NMDA-type ionotropic transmembrane receptor for glutamate that...
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    Ampakines or AMPAkines are a subgroup of AMPA receptor positive allosteric modulators with a benzamide or closely related chemical structure. They are...
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    non-NMDA-type receptor, along with the AMPA receptor. KARs are less understood than AMPA and NMDA receptors, the other ionotropic glutamate receptors. Postsynaptic...
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    GRIA2 (redirect from Glutamate receptor 2)
    Glutamate ionotropic receptor AMPA type subunit 2 (Glutamate receptor 2, or GluR-2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GRIA2 (or GLUR2) gene...
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    AMPA receptor positive allosteric modulators are positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of the AMPA receptor (AMPR), a type of ionotropic glutamate receptor...
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    in excessive stimulation of receptors. For example, when glutamate receptors such as the NMDA receptor or AMPA receptor encounter excessive levels of...
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  • NMDA-type glutamate receptors but no AMPA-type glutamate receptors. These synapses are named "silent" because normal AMPA receptor-mediated signaling is...
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    impermeable in over 99% of AMPA receptors. Like AMPA receptors, kainate receptors are tetrameric, transmembrane, ionotropic glutamate receptors on glutamatergic...
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    Osavampator (category AMPA receptor positive allosteric modulators)
    modulator (PAM) of the AMPA receptor. Osavampator and other AMPA PAMs potentiate the effects of agonists at the main site of the AMPA receptor by slowing the...
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    Perampanel (category AMPA receptor antagonists)
    antiepileptic drug in the class of selective non-competitive antagonist of AMPA receptors. The drug label has a black box warning that the drug may cause serious...
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    Barbiturate (category AMPA receptor antagonists)
    this receptor. In addition to this GABAergic effect, barbiturates also block AMPA and kainate receptors, subtypes of ionotropic glutamate receptor. Glutamate...
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  • the glutamate receptor-interacting protein (GRIP) family have been shown to interact with GluR2, a common subunit in the AMPA receptor. This subunit also...
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    Ibotenic acid (category AMPA receptor agonists)
    metabotropic glutamate receptors. It is inactive at group III mGluRs. Ibotenic acid also acts as a weak agonist of the AMPA and kainate receptors. In addition,...
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    glutamate receptors, such as NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate), AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid), and kainate receptors, have distinct...
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    via long-term potentiation. While AMPA receptor activation leads to depolarization via sodium influx, NMDA receptor activation by rapid successive firing...
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    neurotransmitter receptors, are highly mobile in the plasma membrane due to lateral diffusion. Fast movements of AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) are...
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    Piracetam (category AMPA receptor positive allosteric modulators)
    sedative or stimulant. Piracetam is a positive allosteric modulator of the AMPA receptor, although this action is very weak and its clinical effects may not...
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  • activation of the AMPA receptor. Overall signal can be increased by preventing the desensitization of a receptor. Desensitization prevents a receptor from activating...
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    is one of three types of ionotropic glutamate receptors, the other two being AMPA and kainate receptors. Depending on its subunit composition, its ligands...
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    GRIA4 (category Ionotropic glutamate receptors)
    neurotransmitters receptors pre-mRNa are substrates for ADARs. This includes 5 subunits of the glutamate receptor ionotropic AMPA glutamate receptor subunits (Glur2...
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    Caramboxin (category AMPA receptor agonists)
    Caramboxin stimulates the glutamate receptors in neurons, being an agonist of both NMDA and AMPA glutamatergic ionotropic receptors with potent excitatory, convulsant...
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    phosphorylate existing AMPA receptors to increase their activity. Second, they mediate or modulate the insertion of additional AMPA receptors into the postsynaptic...
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  • JNCL could be due to overactive AMPA receptors in the cerebellum. To test this hypothesis, researchers administered AMPA antagonist drugs into affected...
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    kainate receptors, are similar in many respects to AMPA receptors, but much less abundant. Many synapses use multiple types of glutamate receptors. AMPA receptors...
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    of interactions with the 5-HT1A, GABAA, adenosine A1, AMPA, mGluR2/3, mGlu5, and OX2 receptors. In the rat cerebellum, the protein has also been found...
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    and sequence similarity: AMPA receptors, kainate receptors, NMDA receptors and delta receptors (see below). AMPA receptors are the main charge carriers...
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    Theanine (category AMPA receptor antagonists)
    in the micromolar range, including the AMPA and kainate receptors and, to a lesser extent, the NMDA receptor. It acts as an antagonist of the former...
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