The functional properties of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methy-4-isoxazole propionate (AMPA) receptors in different brain regions, such as hippocampus and cerebellum, have been well studied in vitro and in vivo. The AMPA receptors present a unique characteristic in the mechanisms of subunit regulation during LTP (long-term potentiation) and LTD (long-term depression), which are involved in the traf...

Overactivation of ionotropic glutamate receptors has been implicated in the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury. Using an in vitro cell injury model, we examined the effects of stretch-induced traumatic injury on the AMPA subtype of ionotropic glutamate receptors in cultured neonatal cortical neurons. Recordings made using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique revealed that a subpopulation...

The effects of potassium thiocyanate on the binding of DL-aamino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA), 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX), and L-glutamate to the AMPA receptor complex were studied in rat brain membranes. Thiocyanate increased the affinity of AMPA receptors for both AMPA and i.-glutamate and decreased the affinity for CNQX. Displacement of [3H]CNQX binding b...

AMPA receptors mediate fast synaptic transmission at excitatory synapses in the CNS and are crucial during neuronal development, synaptic plasticity and structural remodeling. AMPA receptors lacking GluR2 subunits are permeable to Ca(2+) and Zn(2+). Ca(2+) permeation through AMPA receptors is crucial in several forms of synaptic plasticity and cell death associated with neurological diseases an...

In this work we study the excitatory AMPA, and NMDA, and inhibitory GABAA receptor mediated dynamical changes in neuronal networks of neonatal rat cortex in vitro. Extracellular network-wide activity was recorded with 59 planar electrodes simultaneously under different pharmacological conditions. We analyzed the changes of overall network activity and network-wide burst frequency between baseli...

Association of PKA with the AMPA receptor GluR1 subunit via the A kinase anchor protein AKAP150 is crucial for GluR1 phosphorylation. Mutating the AKAP150 gene to specifically prevent PKA binding reduced PKA within postsynaptic densities (>70%). It abolished hippocampal LTP in 7-12 but not 4-week-old mice. Inhibitors of PKA and of GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors blocked single tetanus LTP in hippo...

Objective(s): Growing evidence suggests that dysfunction of the glutamatergic system and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors are involved in pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Because AMPA receptors play a key role in plasticity synaptic regulation, positive modulation of these receptors may rescue the cognitive deficits in the AD. The aim of this study was ...

Dopamine can modulate and excite spinal locomotor networks, affect afferent transmission and increase motoneuronal excitability. One of the mechanisms whereby dopamine increases motoneuronal excitability is to potentiate AMPA channel-mediated glutamatergic transmission onto motoneurons. However, it is not known which dopaminergic receptor subtypes or the intracellular mechanisms contribute to t...

هدف: این پژوهش با هدف ارائه مدل چالش‌های پرورش کودکان کم‌شنوای پیش‌دبستانی از دیدگاه مادران و متخصصان بر اساس نظریه داده‌بنیاد انجام ‌شده است. روش: نمونه 15 مادر کودک کم‌شنوا 4 تا 6 ساله انجمن والدین شهر تهران 5 متخصص حوزه ناشنوا بودند که در سال 1400 استفاده روش نمونه‌گیری هدفمند انتخاب شدند. چالش ­های طریق مصاحبه نیمه ساختاریافته عمیق رسیدن به اشباع نظری جمع‌آوری کدگذاری (کدگذاری باز، محوری ان...

This paper proposes an ACO (ant colony optimization)-based multicast path algorithm (AMPA) to reduce the multicast communication traffic in hypercube networks. According to the high regularity of hypercube networks, an optimized distributed algorithm (Opt-AMPA) for AMPA is proposed by clustering strategy, whose time cost can fill the requirements of the actual networks. The simulation results i...