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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 155, Issue 2, 11 June 1993, Pages 187-190
Neuroscience Letters

Two distinct types of AMPA responses in cultured rat hippocampal neurons

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Abstract

We previously found two distinct types of responses to kainate in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. The type I response is characterized by very little increase in Ca2+ permeability with an outward rectification in the current-voltage (I–V) relation of the kainate response. In contrast, the type II kainate response is characterized by prominent Ca2+ permeability and an inward rectification. These two types of responses were mimicked by α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate (AMPA). Furthermore, AMPA cross-desensitized both types of kainate responses. These results indicate that two functionally different types of AMPA/kainate receptors are expressed in hippocampal neurons.

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