Tomoya Kitayama

TL;DR: The results suggest that functional heteromeric NMDA receptors may be expressed constitutively in neural progenitor cells before differentiation to play a crucial role in commitment and differentiation to neurons in adult murine hippocampus.

TL;DR: The results suggest that NMDA receptors may play a role crucial for maintenance of the integrity and function of proliferative neural progenitor cells through expression of the nuclear transcription factor activator protein‐1 in granule cells of the dentate gyrus in adult mouse brain.

TL;DR: Extracellular Glu signals may be differentially transduced into the nucleus to express AP1 with different assemblies between Jun and Fos family members, and thereby to modulate de novo synthesis of the individual target proteins at the level of gene transcription in the hippocampus.

TL;DR: Results suggest that prior activation of GABAAR may preferentially facilitate the commitment by CNTF of neural progenitor cells toward an astroglial lineage after simulation of the self‐replication activity in the developing rat brain.

TL;DR: The results suggest that group III mGluR may be functionally expressed to suppress self‐renewal capacity through a mechanism related to cAMP formation with promotion of subsequent differentiation into astroglial lineage in neural progenitors.