Protein Information

Name NMDA receptors (protein family or complex)
Synonyms Glutamate [NMDA] receptor; Glutamate [NMDA] receptors; N methyl D aspartate receptor; N methyl D aspartate receptors; NMDA receptor; NMDA receptors

Compound Information

Name biphenyl
CAS 1,1′-biphenyl

Reference List

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20350588 Hackler EA, Byun NE, Jones CK, Williams JM, Baheza R, Sengupta S, Grier MD, Avison M, Conn PJ, Gore JC: Selective potentiation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 2 blocks phencyclidine-induced hyperlocomotion and brain activation. Neuroscience. 2010 Mar 27.

Indeed, biphenyl indanone-A (BINA), an allosteric potentiator of mGluR2, is effective in experimental models of psychosis, blocking phencyclidine (PCP)-induced hyperlocomotion and prepulse inhibition deficits in mice.
In this study, we administered the NMDA receptor antagonist PCP (5.6 mg/kg i.p.) to rats, an established animal model predictive of schizophrenia.
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19832997 Lin YR, Chen HH, Lin YC, Ko CH, Chan MH: Antinociceptive actions of honokiol and magnolol on glutamatergic and inflammatory pain. J Biomed Sci. 2009 Oct 16;16:94.


Furthermore, their different potency on inhibition of nociception provoked by NMDA receptor and mGluR5 activation should be considered.
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19022367 Ndountse LT, Chan HM: Role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in polychlorinated biphenyl mediated neurotoxicity. Toxicol Lett. 2009 Jan 10;184(1):50-5. Epub 2008 Oct 28.
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17728388 Hellier JL, Grosshans DR, Coultrap SJ, Jones JP, Dobelis P, Browning MD, Staley KJ: NMDA receptor trafficking at recurrent synapses stabilizes the state of the CA3 network. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Nov;98(5):2818-26. Epub 2007 Aug 29.

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20092573 Reed BT, Sullivan SJ, Tsai G, Coyle JT, Esguerra M, Miller RF: The glycine transporter GlyT1 controls N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor coagonist occupancy in the mouse retina. Eur J Neurosci. 2009 Dec;30(12):2308-17. Epub 2009 Dec 10.

We examined the role of GlyT1, the high-affinity glycine transporter, in the mouse retina with an emphasis on the role of glycine as a coagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors.
Capillary electrophoresis was used to separate and quantitatively measure glycine release from isolated retina preparations; pharmacologically blocking GlyT1 with N-[3-([1,1-biphenyl]-4-yloxy)-3-(4-fluorophenyl) propyl]-N-methylglycine in the WT retina generated a significantly larger accumulation of glycine into the bathing environment when compared with the GlyT1 (-/+) retinas.
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18930747 Hellier JL, White A, Williams PA, Edward Dudek F, Staley KJ: NMDA receptor-mediated long-term alterations in epileptiform activity in experimental chronic epilepsy. Neuropharmacology. 2009 Feb;56(2):414-21. Epub 2008 Oct 7.

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17959203 Linderholm KR, Andersson A, Olsson S, Olsson E, Snodgrass R, Engberg G, Erhardt S: Activation of rat ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons by endogenous kynurenic acid: a pharmacological analysis. Neuropharmacology. 2007 Dec;53(8):918-24. Epub 2007 Sep 20.


Kynurenic acid (KYNA) is an endogenous NMDA receptor antagonist as well as a blocker of the alpha7* nicotinic receptor and mounting evidence suggests that the compound participates in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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