Concerning the request for synaptic glutamate receptors:
There are numerous papers reporting glutamate autoceptors and other
presynaptic receptors in the literature. Here are a couple from which you
can branch out to others.
Wise Young (Neurosurgery, NYU Medical Center)
Wise.Young at mcccm.med.nyu.edu
1. Traven HG, Brodin L, Lansner A, Ekeberg O, Wallen P, et al. (1993).
Computer simulations of NMDA and non-NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic
drive: sensory and supraspinal modulation of neurons and small networks.
J Neurophysiol 70: 695-709.
2. Alford S, Dubuc R (1993). Glutamate metabotropic receptor mediated
depression of synaptic inputs to lamprey reticulospinal neurones. Brain
Res 605: 175-9.
3. Liu H, Wang H, Sheng M, Jan LY, Jan YN, et al. (1994). Evidence for
presynaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate autoreceptors in the spinal cord dorsal
horn. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91: 8383-7.
4. Desce JM, Godeheu G, Galli T, Glowinski J, Cheramy A (1994). Opposite
presynaptic regulations by glutamate through NMDA receptors of dopamine
synthesis and release in rat striatal synaptosomes. Brain Res 640:
205-14.
5. Petralia RS, Yokotani N, Wenthold RJ (1994). Light and electron
microscope distribution of the NMDA receptor subunit NMDAR1 in the rat
nervous system using a selective anti-peptide antibody. J Neurosci 14:
667-96.
6. Tachibana M, Wenthold RJ, Morioka H, Petralia RS (1994). Light and
electron microscopic immunocytochemical localization of AMPA-selective
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