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The NMDA Receptor: Analogies and Differences with the Non-NMDA Glutamate Receptors and with the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

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Glutamate, Cell Death and Memory

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During the last 3 years our conceptions of glutamate receptors have rapidly evolved. The major new observations are probably the characterization of glutamate receptors coupled to G proteins (metabotropic receptors, see Sladeczek et al. 1985; Sugiyama et al. 1987; Nawy and Jahr 1990; Lester et al. 1990a; Charpak et al. 1990) and the cloning of a series of cDNA sequences coding for sub-units of the “non-NMDA” receptors which directly gate ion channels (ionotropic receptors ; Hollmann et al., 1989; Boulter et al., 1990; Keinänen et al., 1990; Sommer et al., 1990; see Heinemann et al., this volume).

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Ascher, P., Sather, W. (1991). The NMDA Receptor: Analogies and Differences with the Non-NMDA Glutamate Receptors and with the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor. In: Ascher, P., Choi, D.W., Christen, Y. (eds) Glutamate, Cell Death and Memory. Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84526-0_1

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