title: Immunological detection of glutamate receptor subtypes in human central nervous system.
abstract: Glutamate receptors are the principal excitatory neurotransmitter receptors in the central nervous system and are involved in a number of normal and pathological neuronal processes. Using subunit-specific antipeptide antibodies developed against the predicted amino acid sequences of several rat glutamate receptor cDNAs, we have identified these proteins in post-mortem human central nervous system tissue. Immunoblotting of dissected brain regions demonstrates that these receptor proteins are differentially distributed. The ability to identify these proteins in post-mortem human tissues should allow examination of the changes in levels of receptor subtypes that occur in a variety of neurological and psychiatric diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Blackstone
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Levey
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Huganir
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000737:chemistry*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000145:classification* / Q000276:immunology; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000276:immunology; D051381:Rats; D018091:Receptors, AMPA; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate; D017981:Receptors, Neurotransmitter / Q000032:analysis* / Q000145:classification* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D018091:Receptors, AMPA; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate; D017981:Receptors, Neurotransmitter