Is Aspartate an Excitatory Neurotransmitter?
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Is Aspartate an Excitatory Neurotransmitter?
UNLABELLED Recent evidence has resurrected the idea that the amino acid aspartate, a selective NMDA receptor agonist, is a neurotransmitter. Using a mouse that lacks the glutamate-selective vesicular transporter VGLUT1, we find that glutamate alone fully accounts for the activation of NMDA receptors at excitatory synapses in the hippocampus. This excludes a role for aspartate and, by extension,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0524-15.2015