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Kainate autoreceptors regulate the release of glutamate without the mediation of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptors. Kainate suppresses the release of L-glutamate from rat hippocampal synaptosomes and reduces glutamatergic synaptic transmission. Kainate antagonists reverse the suppression, but AMPA antagonists are unable to do so. The inhibitory action of kainate on the release of amino acids is through its action on kainate autoreceptors, and not via AMPA receptors.
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L-glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system of vertebrates that acts on three classes of ionotripic glutamate receptors: alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid, N-methyl-D-aspartate and kainate. However, the role of kainate receptors is ill understood. A new study shows that kainate receptors regulate synaptic inhibition in the hippocampus and could contribute to kainate's epileptogenic effects.
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(RS)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxy phenylglycine is used to examine the nature of the involvement of mGluRs in long-term potentiation (LTP). It is a specific mGluR antagonist in the Lippocampus. Synaptic activation of mGluRs is necessary for the induction of both NMDA receptor-dependent and NMDA receptor-independent forms of LTP in the Lippocampus.
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