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    Glycine receptor subunit alpha-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GLRA1 gene. The inhibitory glycine receptor mediates postsynaptic inhibition...
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    the glycine receptor, alpha 1 subunit, which, together with the glycine receptor beta subunit, forms synaptic glycine receptors. Inhibitory glycine receptors...
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  • Thumbnail for Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
    similarities with GABAA receptors, glycine receptors, and the type 3 serotonin receptors (which are all ionotropic receptors), or the signature Cys-loop...
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    on both alpha and beta receptors. Shortly afterward, Eli Lilly Laboratories synthesized the first beta-blocker, dichloroisoproterenol. ADRB-1 is a transmembrane...
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  • of genes, proteins or receptors named A1 or Alpha-1 : Actin, alpha 1 Actinin, alpha 1 Adaptor-related protein complex 2, alpha 1 Aldehyde dehydrogenase...
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  • Thumbnail for Glycine
    to the formation of alpha-helices in secondary protein structure due to the "flexibility" caused by such a small R group. Glycine is also an inhibitory...
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  • Thumbnail for Acetylcholine receptor
    This causes a decrease in cardiac activity. ACh receptors are related to GABA, glycine, and 5-HT3 receptors and their similar protein sequence and gene structure...
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  • Thumbnail for NMDA receptor antagonist
    pass, the NMDA receptor must be open. To remain open, glutamate and glycine must bind to the NMDA receptor. An NMDA receptor that has glycine and glutamate...
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    4-Iodopropofol GABA receptor GABAB receptor GABAA-ρ receptor Gephyrin Glycine receptor GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators GABAA receptor negative allosteric...
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  • Thumbnail for Cannabinoid receptor
    hypothesis that the N-arachidonoyl glycine (NAGly) receptor GPR18 is the molecular identity of the abnormal cannabidiol receptor and additionally suggests that...
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    acetylcholine (AcCh), (2) serotonin, (3) glycine, (4) glutamate and (5) γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in vertebrates. The receptors are subdivided with respect to...
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    superfamily, which includes nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, GABAA receptors, glycine and 5-HT3 receptors, possess a characteristic loop formed by a disulfide...
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    differs from that in the thalamus. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and its receptor are the molecules that seem to be responsible for the sensitization...
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  • acts on these cell's ability to control alpha motor neuron firing by binding to the glycine receptors on the alpha motor neuron and thus muscles continually...
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  • Glycine receptor, alpha 1 Glycophosphatidylinositol Godfrey Hounsfield Gopinath Kartha Gq alpha subunit Gray's paradox Ground reaction force Gs alpha...
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  • Thumbnail for Receptor (biochemistry)
    single transmembrane alpha helix. The insulin receptor is an example. Type 4: Nuclear receptors – While they are called nuclear receptors, they are actually...
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  • Thumbnail for Collagen, type III, alpha 1
    for the receptor GRP56. The first single base mutation in the COL3A1 gene was reported in 1989 in a patient with vEDS and changed a glycine amino acid...
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    pyruvate dehydrogenase, α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, the glycine cleavage system, branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase, and the α-oxo(keto)adipate...
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    Pharmacology of ethanol (category Glycine reuptake inhibitors)
    modulator Kainate receptor: negative allosteric modulator Glycine receptor: positive allosteric modulator Serotonin 5-HT3 receptor: positive allosteric...
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  • Thumbnail for Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
    Peptidyl-glycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase, or PAM, is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of an n+1 residue long peptide with a C-terminal glycine into...
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  • nicotinic acetylcholine, GABAA, GABAA-ρ, glycine, 5-HT3, and zinc-activated (ZAC) receptors. These receptors are composed of five protein subunits which...
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  • Thumbnail for Glutamate (neurotransmitter)
    channels. The β subunits of the receptor respond with very high affinity to glutamate and glycine. Targeting these receptors has been the therapeutic goal...
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  • Serine (category Glycine receptor agonists)
    the NMDAR glycine site than glycine itself. However, D-serine has been shown to work as an antagonist/inverse co-agonist of t-NMDA receptors through the...
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  • Thumbnail for Alpha helix
    content of achiral glycine amino acids, but are unfavorable for the other normal, biological L-amino acids. The pitch of the alpha-helix (the vertical...
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    acids are known, but this one occurs naturally.[verification needed] Like glycine, but unlike most α-amino acids, ACC is not chiral. ACC is the precursor...
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    it. There are two basic types of transmembrane proteins: alpha-helical and beta barrels. Alpha-helical proteins are present in the inner membranes of bacterial...
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  • Proline (category Glycine receptor agonists)
    act as a weak agonist of the glycine receptor and of both NMDA and non-NMDA (AMPA/kainate) ionotropic glutamate receptors. It has been proposed to be a...
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  • Thumbnail for AMPA receptor
    acid receptor (also known as AMPA receptor, AMPAR, or quisqualate receptor) is an ionotropic transmembrane receptor for glutamate (iGluR)...
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    synthetic analog of IGF-1, mecasermin, is used for the treatment of growth failure in children with severe IGF-1 deficiency. Cyclic glycine-proline (cGP) is...
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  • Thumbnail for Index of biochemistry articles
    - alpha adrenergic receptor - alpha helix - alpha-1 adrenergic receptor - alpha-2 adrenergic receptor - alpha-beta T-cell antigen receptor - alpha-fetoprotein...
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