The two faces of glutamate

Jean-Philippe Pin ()
Additional contact information
Jean-Philippe Pin: the CNRS-UPR 9023, Mécanismes Moléculaires des Communications Cellulaires, CCIPE

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6688, 19-20

Abstract: Most of the excitatory synapses in our brain — those that cause the depolarization of neurons — involve release of the neurotransmitter glutamate. One group has now found that glutamate also has inhibitory actions, resulting in the opposite effect (hyperpolarization). What's more, glutamate can act on the same receptor to cause both effects. It turns out that the crucial factors are how much glutamate is present, and how rapidly it is applied.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/27771 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:394:y:1998:i:6688:d:10.1038_27771

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/27771

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().