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AMPARs and Synaptic Plasticity: The Last 25 Years

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The progress over the last two and a half decades is reviewed, the future challenges in the field are discussed and a large number of proteins have been identified that regulate this complex process.
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This article is published in Neuron.The article was published on 2013-10-30 and is currently open access. It has received 783 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metaplasticity & Synaptic scaling.

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A Brief History of Long-Term Potentiation.

TL;DR: The rich history of LTP is reviewed, which provides a compelling cellular model for learning and memory and shows how the pace of discovery is remarkable.
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Hippocampal GABAergic Inhibitory Interneurons.

TL;DR: An overview of the current state of the field of interneuron research, focusing largely on the hippocampus, discusses recent advances related to the various cell types, including their development and maturation, expression of subtype-specific voltage- and ligand-gated channels, and their roles in network oscillations.
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The AMPA Receptor Code of Synaptic Plasticity.

TL;DR: The AMPAR code suggests that AMPAR variants will be predictive of the types and extent of synaptic plasticity that can occur and that a hierarchy exists such that certain AMPARs will be disproportionally recruited to synapses during LTP/homeostatic scaling up, or removed during LTD/homeOSTatic scaling down.
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Ultrastructural evidence for synaptic scaling across the wake/sleep cycle.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that a core function of sleep is to renormalize overall synaptic strength increased by wake is supported, as measured in mouse motor and sensory cortices.
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Homer1a drives homeostatic scaling-down of excitatory synapses during sleep

TL;DR: Using biochemistry, proteomics, and imaging in mice, it is found that during sleep, synapses undergo widespread alterations in composition and signaling, including weakening of synapses through removal and dephosphorylation of synaptic AMPA-type glutamate receptors.
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TL;DR: The after‐effects of repetitive stimulation of the perforant path fibres to the dentate area of the hippocampal formation have been examined with extracellular micro‐electrodes in rabbits anaesthetized with urethane.
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Magnesium gates glutamate-activated channels in mouse central neurones

TL;DR: The voltage dependence of the NMDA receptor-linked conductance appears to be a consequence of the voltage dependenceof the Mg2+ block and its interpretation does not require the implication of an intramembrane voltage-dependent ‘gate’.
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LTP and LTD: an embarrassment of riches.

TL;DR: This work reviews those forms of LTP and LTD for which mechanisms have been most firmly established and examples are provided that show how these mechanisms can contribute to experience-dependent modifications of brain function.
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Glutamate Receptor Ion Channels: Structure, Regulation, and Function

TL;DR: This review discusses International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology glutamate receptor nomenclature, structure, assembly, accessory subunits, interacting proteins, gene expression and translation, post-translational modifications, agonist and antagonist pharmacology, allosteric modulation, mechanisms of gating and permeation, roles in normal physiological function, as well as the potential therapeutic use of pharmacological agents acting at glutamate receptors.
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