Ionotropic glutamate receptors: alive and kicking
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Ionotropic glutamate receptors: alive and kicking.
It has been about 25 years since a landmark cloning study identified the molecular identity of the first of 18 different genes that encode the ionotropic glutamate receptor (iGluR) family (Hollmann et al. 1989). Since that time, we have witnessed major advances in our understanding of the biology of iGluRs. Breakthroughs in genetics provided our first insights into the many roles iGluRs fulfil ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Physiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-3751
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.284448