At retinal synapses, unlike in any other brain region, presynaptic glutamate transporters act ... Retinal synapses possess a specialized subclass of chemical synapses that are identified by ...
Glutamate plays many important roles in brain function. For starters, it acts as a neurotransmitter — a chemical substance that stimulates nerve cells to transmit signals. Some animal and human ...
Excitatory synapses are located in confined chemical ... brain, the presynaptic nerve ending contains several tens to a few hundreds of synaptic vesicles filled with the neurotransmitter glutamate.
The development of anxiety in girls and young women may stem from an imbalance between two crucial brain chemicals, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate, according to a new study from the ...
However, despite the lack of concussive symptoms, the impact has disrupted the chemical balance in ... in the delicate balance between glutamate, the brain's main excitatory neurotransmitter ...
11–13 The chemical design of NMDA antagonists was successful ... The long-term (days to weeks) increase in glutamate concentrations in human brain after traumatic injury has been considered neurotoxic ...
Neurobiologists at the University of California San Diego have now identified a mechanism in the brain that generates ... the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate to the inhibitory ...