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N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors

Known as: Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate, NMDA receptor, Receptors, N-Methylaspartate 
A class of ionotropic glutamate receptors characterized by affinity for N-methyl-D-aspartate. NMDA receptors have an allosteric binding site for… 
National Institutes of Health

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Excitatory Amino Acid ReceptorGlutamate Receptor

Narrower (12)

Gprin1 protein, mouseN-methyl D-aspartate receptor subtype 2ANMDA receptor 2BNMDA receptor A1

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Anti–N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in children and adolescents
To report the clinical features of anti–N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in patients ≤ 18 years old. 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Paraneoplastic anti–N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitis associated with ovarian teratoma
To report the autoantigens of a new category of treatment‐responsive paraneoplastic encephalitis. 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
D-serine is an endogenous ligand for the glycine site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor.
Functional activity of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors requires both glutamate binding and the binding of an endogenous… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Functional and pharmacological differences between recombinant N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.
N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors transiently transfected into mammalian HEK-293 cells were characterized with subunit… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Neurotoxicity associated with dual actions of homocysteine at the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor.
Severely elevated levels of total homocysteine (approximately millimolar) in the blood typify the childhood disease… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
A synaptic model of memory: long-term potentiation in the hippocampus
Long-term potentiation of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus is the primary experimental model for investigating the… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Homosynaptic long-term depression in area CA1 of hippocampus and effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blockade.
  • S. DudekM. Bear
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 24591658
We tested a theoretical prediction that patterns of excitatory input activity that consistently fail to activate target neurons… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Selective impairment of learning and blockade of long-term potentiation by an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, AP5
Recent work has shown that the hippocampus contains a class of receptors for the excitatory amino acid glutamate that are… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Distribution of N-methyl-D-aspartate-sensitive L-[3H]glutamate-binding sites in rat brain
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) is an acidic amino acid which depolarizes neurons by selectively interacting with a distinct class of… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors may protect against ischemic damage in the brain.
In rats ischemia of the forebrain induced by a 30-minute occlusion of the carotid artery, followed by 120 minutes of arterial… 
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