Mechanisms of ketamine and its metabolites as antidepressants

EM Hess, LM Riggs, M Michaelides… - Biochemical pharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
Treating major depression is a medical need that remains unmet by monoaminergic
therapeutic strategies that commonly fail to achieve symptom remission. A breakthrough in …

NMDA receptor functions in health and disease: Old actor, new dimensions

JP Dupuis, O Nicole, L Groc - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
N-Methyl-D-aspartate ionotropic glutamate receptors (NMDARs) play key roles in
synaptogenesis, synaptic maturation, long-term plasticity, neuronal network activity, and …

A vicious cycle of β amyloid–dependent neuronal hyperactivation

B Zott, MM Simon, W Hong, F Unger, HJ Chen-Engerer… - Science, 2019 - science.org
β-amyloid (Aβ)–dependent neuronal hyperactivity is believed to contribute to the circuit
dysfunction that characterizes the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although …

Impairment of glycolysis-derived l-serine production in astrocytes contributes to cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease

J Le Douce, M Maugard, J Veran, M Matos, P Jégo… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Alteration of brain aerobic glycolysis is often observed early in the course of Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Whether and how such metabolic dysregulation contributes to both synaptic …

Mechanisms of NMDA receptor regulation

L Mony, P Paoletti - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are glutamate-gated ion channels widely
expressed in the central nervous system that play key role in brain development and …

Regulation of NMDA glutamate receptor functions by the GluN2 subunits

M Vieira, XLH Yong, KW Roche… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate receptors that
mediate the flux of calcium (Ca2+) into the post‐synaptic compartment. Ca2+ influx …

Synaptic GluN2A-containing NMDA receptors: from physiology to pathological synaptic plasticity

L Franchini, N Carrano, M Di Luca… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
N-Methyl-d-Aspartate Receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate-gated receptors.
NMDARs are tetramers composed by several homologous subunits of GluN1-, GluN2-, or …

[HTML][HTML] GluN3A excitatory glycine receptors control adult cortical and amygdalar circuits

S Bossi, D Dhanasobhon, GCR Ellis-Davies, J Frontera… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
GluN3A is an atypical glycine-binding subunit of NMDA receptors (NMDARs) whose actions
in the brain are mostly unknown. Here, we show that the expression of GluN3A subunits …

Unconventional NMDA receptor signaling

K Dore, IS Stein, JA Brock, PE Castillo… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
In the classical view, NMDA receptors (NMDARs) are stably expressed at the postsynaptic
membrane, where they act via Ca 2+ to signal coincidence detection in Hebbian plasticity …

Sex differences in psychiatric disease: a focus on the glutamate system

MM Wickens, DA Bangasser, LA Briand - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alterations in glutamate, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, are implicated
in several psychiatric diseases. Many of these psychiatric diseases display epidemiological …