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Meaning of "kainate"

kainate (adjective): Kainate is a term related to a type of neurotransmitter receptor in the brain known as kainate receptors. These receptors play a role in excitatory neurotransmission
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  • Any salt or ester of kainic acid

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Postsynaptic kainate receptors are involved in excitatory neurotransmission.
Development of microfluidic applications to study the role of kainate receptors in synaptogenesis.
Kainate receptors and synaptic transmission.
Control animals received vehicle instead of kainate and drug infusion.
Ionotropic kainate receptors operate by a novel gating mechanism.
These oocytes exhibited the same responses to kainate as those kept in control medium.
Amygdala kainate receptors in synaptic plasticity and fear.
Extrapolating from these data led to the conclusion that kainate receptors are located presynaptically.
Kainate receptors have both presynaptic and postsynaptic actions.
The ion channel formed by kainate receptors is permeable to sodium and potassium ions.
Riluzole has also been reported to directly inhibit the kainate and NMDA receptors.
The kainate receptors play an important role in regulating the amount of information transmitted.
Dose-dependent neuronal excitotoxicity of kainate.
In this preparation kainate was also exerting its effect through the activation of AMPA receptors.
Figure 15 depicts the efficacy of human asialoerythropoietin in a kainate model of cerebral toxicity.

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Kainic acid is an agonist for kainate receptors, a type of ionotropic glutamate receptor.
Observation of the stage of epileptic seizure was carried out 90 minutes after injection of kainate.
However, phosphorylation also facilitates SUMOylation of kainate receptors that reduces their activity.
AMPA, NMDA, and kainate receptors are the three main types of glutamate receptors.
These results demonstrate clearly that the human EAA3a receptor is binding kainate specifically.
Selective antagonism of AMPA receptors unmasks kainate receptor-mediated responses in hippocampal neurons.
Under these culture conditions, the astrocytes and oligodendrocytes were not affected by the kainate treatment.
It damages the neurons by activating AMPA and kainate receptors, causing an influx of calcium.
The kainate and AMPA receptors are often referred to collectively as non-NMDA receptors.
Bidirectional regulation of hippocampal mossy fiber filopodial motility by kainate receptors, a two-step model of synaptogenesis.
Moreover, ( S ) - roscovitine has a preventive effect on the neuronal death caused by kainate.
Permitting an excessive amount of NMDA, AMPA or kainate to act on nerves causes neuropathy.
Nonspecific binding was determined using 100 µM nonlabeled kainate.
FIG . 8 illustrates the selective neuronal death caused by kainate using mixed hippocampus cultures,.
The cultures were exposed for 5 hours to a 200 uM concentration of kainate.
Example IV, Kainate seizures in rats.
These results demonstrate clearly that the human EAA1a receptor is binding kainate with high affinity.
Example II, Kainate seizures in mice.
Furthermore, targeted disrupttion of galanin gene increases seizure susceptibility in SE, kainate and PTZ models.
Heteromeric kainate receptors formed by the coassembly of GluR5, GluR6, and GluR7.
Major receptors of neurotransmitters include AMPA receptors, NMDA receptors, and Kainate Receptors.
Glutamate receptors, NMDA receptor, AMPA receptor, and Kainate receptor ( Glutamate ).
Key words, glutamate receptors, quinoxalinediones, philanthotoxin, AMPA, kainate.
Ionotropic glutamate receptors can include NMDA, AMPA, and kainate receptors.
Sham control animals received infusions of vehicle, but no kainate or K-252a.
Ionotropic receptors ( iGluRs ) are fast-acting ligand-gated ion channels and include AMPA, Kainate and NMDA.

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