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Nature Neuroscience 7, 419 - 420 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nn0504-419

Presynaptic NMDA receptors get into the act

Anastassios V Tzingounis1 & Roger A Nicoll1

  1. Anastassios V. Tzingounis and Roger A. Nicoll are at the Departments of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94943, USA. e-mail: nicoll@cmp.ucsf.edu


In a new form of synaptic plasticity, depolarization of Purkinje cells increases the frequency of mini GABAergic IPSCs, via glutamate acting as a retrograde messenger on presynaptic NMDA receptors on the terminals of cerebellar interneurons.

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