McGill University researchers have demonstrated that AMPA receptors (AMPARs), which mediate ... GluA2, GluA3, and GluA4, which determine their functional properties. Findings suggest a broader ...

These synapses were dubbed "silent" because they lacked a specific type of receptor known as “AMPA receptors,” to which glutamate binds. Evolution of Understanding Initially, silent synapses ...

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Indeed, they showed that LRRTM2 recruits glutamate receptors to the postsynaptic cell membrane: knocking down LRRTM2 using short hairpin RNA technology decreased the surface density of AMPA (α ...