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BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 230, 期 1, 页码 291-298出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.01.057
关键词
Glutamate; NMDA receptor; Epilepsy; Neurotoxicity; Knockout mouse; Electrophysiology; 2-Deoxyglucose; Functional brain imaging; Ketamine; Phencyclidine; MK-801
The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) plays a critical role in glutamatergically mediated neurotransmission, and thereby affects a wide range of brain circuits and important behavioral functions, not limited to learning and memory. While glutamate is classically considered to be the brain's principal excitatory neurotransmitter, there is also evidence the NMDAR plays a functionally inhibitory role, not in that it directly hyperpolarizes neurons but rather it suppresses circuit level neural activity, including through activation of GABAergic interneurons. This paper reviews data on the NMDAR suppression hypothesis (while also examining circuit level activation), with a focus on the following 6 lines of evidence: (1) epilepsy studies, (2) neurotoxicity studies, (3) mouse knockout studies of particular receptor subunits, (4) electrophysiological studies, (5) 2-deoxyglucose studies, and (6) functional brain imaging studies. For many of these lines of evidence, the review focuses on data from two well-characterized NMDAR antagonists, ketamine and phencyclidine. Also, evidence regarding the NMDAR and schizophrenia, including the psychotomimetic properties of ketamine and phencyclidine, cuts across several of the lines of evidence. The data suggest the NMDAR participates in activation, as well as widespread suppression, of circuit level neural activity, where the suppression may be particularly prominent in limbic circuits. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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