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NMDA receptors and synaptic plasticity. Tadaharu TSUMOTO 1 1Department of Neurophysiology, Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School pp.617-628
Published Date 1988/8/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431906213
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In this review I described some evidence indi-cating a role of a type of excitatory amino acid receptors, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) recep-tors, in synaptic plasticity which has been considered as a neuronal basis of memory pro-cesses in the brain. Among the three types of excitatory amino acid receptors, quisqualate and kainate receptors (non-NMDA receptors) are implicated in the mediation of afferent synaptictransmission at low frequencies in the hippo-campus and visual cortex, whereas NMDA recep-tors are suggested to be involved in synaptic plasticity in the developing visual cortex on the basis of the following three findings ; 1) during the "critical period" of postnatal development when synaptic plasticity is at the highest level in the kitten visual cortex, a selective NMDA antagonist, D, L-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV), blocks visual responses of cortical neurons more effectively than it does in the adult, 2) continuous intracortical infusion of APV renders visual cortical cells aplastic so that they become resistant to the effects of monocular visual depri-vation, and 3) the induction of long-term potentia-tion (LTP) of synaptic efficacy, which is a form of synaptic plasticity seen in slice preparations of the visual cortex of rat pups, is blocked by an application of APV through the perfusion medium.


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