Mice lacking functional glutamate receptor 1 were reported in 1994.
But when he adds a substance that barricades the glutamate receptors, they live.
We know that hypofunctioning glutamate receptors are a contributing factor in developing schizophrenia.
It is used in research into the function of the group II metabotropic glutamate receptors.
Drugs which interact with the other types of glutamate receptor are without effect.
However, glutamate receptors in other organisms have different pharmacology, and therefore these classifications do not hold.
This usually leads to an excessive activation of glutamate receptors, which may lead to neuronal injury.
This new understanding raises the possibility that drugs might arrest the process early on by blocking glutamate receptors.
In test tubes, brain cells can survive for days without oxygen if their glutamate receptors are blocked.
The result showed that although the mice mostly developed normally, on further brain development, glutamate receptors broke down.