NMDA receptor activation enhances inhibitory GABAergic transmission onto hippocampal pyramidal neurons via presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms

• Main Authors: Xue, Jiu Gang, Masuoka, Takayoshi, Gong, Xian Di, Chen, Ken-Shiung, Yanagawa, Yuchio, Law, Alex Sai Kit, Konishi, Shiro
• 其他作者: School of Biological Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2011
• 主題: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94074; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7260
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors (NMDARs) are implicated in synaptic plasticity and modulation of glutamatergic excitatory transmission. Effect of NMDAR activation on inhibitory GABAergic transmission remains largely unknown. Here, we report that a brief application of NMDA could...