Protein Information

Name glutamate receptor
Synonyms GRINL1A; GUP1; GUP2; GRINL1A combined protein; GRINL1A combined protein Gcom10; GRINL1A combined protein Gcom10 precursor; GRINL1A combined protein Gcom11; GRINL1A combined protein Gcom11 precursor…

Compound Information

Name strychnine
CAS strychnidin-10-one

Reference List

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9224858 Hu RQ, Davies JA: Glutamate receptor antagonists reduce spontaneous epileptiform activity in cortical wedges prepared from DBA/2 mice. Exp Brain Res. 1997 Jun;115(2):311-8.

The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist 3-(2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl)-propenyl-1-phosphonic acid (CPP) and the non-competitive NMDA receptor channel blocker ketamine produced a significant reduction of these spontaneous depolarizations. 7-Chlorokynurenic acid (7-CKA), an antagonist at the strychnine-insensitive site on the NMDA receptor, also exerted an inhibitory effect.
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8234367 Sladeczek F, Momiyama A, Takahashi T: Presynaptic inhibitory action of a metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist on excitatory transmission in visual cortical neurons. Proc Biol Sci. 1993 Sep 22;253(1338):297-303.

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14988037 Huang H, Luo DG, Shen Y, Zhang AJ, Yang R, Yang XL: AMPA receptor is involved in transmission of cone signal to ON bipolar cells in carp retina. Brain Res. 2004 Mar 26;1002(1-2):86-93.

The present work focuses on characterization of glutamate receptor subtypes mediating cone signal transmission to ON bipolar cells (BCs) in the carp retina, using intracellular recording techniques.
The effects of AMPA were reversed by coapplication of GYKI 52466, an AMPA receptor selective non-competitive antagonist, but persisted in the presence of picrotoxin and strychnine.
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10974307 Chen J, Heinke B, Sandkuhler J: Activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors induces long-term depression at sensory synapses in superficial spinal dorsal horn. Neuropharmacology. 2000 Sep;39(12):2231-43.


In the presence of bicuculline and strychnine, bath application of (1S,3R)-1-aminocyclopentane-1, 3-dicarboxylic acid ((1S,3R)-ACPD) or the specific group I mGluR agonist (S)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine ((S)-3,5-DHPG) but not the specific group II mGluR agonist (2S,2'R,3'R)-2-(2', 3'-dicarboxycyclopropyl) glycine (DCG-IV) for 20 min produced an acute and a long-term depression of synaptic strength.
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9928321 Kudo N, Nishimaru H: Reorganization of locomotor activity during development in the prenatal rat. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1998 Nov 16;860:306-17.


The spontaneous activity was not blocked by kynurenate, the glutamate receptor blocker, although it was completely abolished by strychnine, the glycine receptor antagonist.
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12401451 Meier J, Juttner R, Kirischuk S, Grantyn R: Synaptic anchoring of glycine receptors in developing collicular neurons under control of metabotropic glutamate receptor activity. Mol Cell Neurosci. 2002 Oct;21(2):324-40.

Two distinct stages of inhibitory synaptogenesis in cultured collicular neurons were defined on the basis of strychnine sensitivity of IPSCs, presence of EPSCs, KCC2 expression, and transmitter-induced Ca (2+) responses.
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18216222 Liu T, Fujita T, Nakatsuka T, Kumamoto E: Phospholipase A2 activation enhances inhibitory synaptic transmission in rat substantia gelatinosa neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2008 Mar;99(3):1274-84. Epub 2008 Jan 23.


The former action is mediated by glutamate-receptor activation and neuronal activity increase, possibly the facilitatory effect of PLA (2) activation on excitatory transmission, whereas the latter action is due to PLA (2) and subsequent lipoxygenase activation and is independent of extracellular Ca (2+).
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7908643 Bonanno G, Vallebuona F, Donadini F, Fontana G, Fedele E, Raiteri M: Heterocarrier-mediated reciprocal modulation of glutamate and glycine release in rat cerebral cortex and spinal cord synaptosomes. Eur J Pharmacol. 1994 Jan 24;252(1):61-7.


The Gly effects were insensitive to strychnine or to 7-Cl-kynurenic acid, antagonists at the two known Gly receptors, but they were strongly Na+ dependent.
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10465348 Shuto H, Kataoka Y, Fujisaki K, Nakao T, Sueyasu M, Miura I, Watanabe Y, Fujiwara M, Oishi R: Inhibition of GABA system involved in cyclosporine-induced convulsions. . Life Sci. 1999;65(9):879-87.


Cyclosporine (50 mg/kg, i.p.) significantly enhanced the intensity of convulsions induced by bicuculline (GABA receptor antagonist), but not those induced by strychnine (glycine receptor antagonist), N-methyl-D-aspartic acid, quisqualic acid or kainic acid (glutamate receptor agonists).
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9092952 White HS: Clinical significance of animal seizure models and mechanism of action studies of potential antiepileptic drugs. Epilepsia. 1997;38 Suppl 1:S9-17.

FBM appears to be active at the strychnine-insensitive glycine binding site of the NMDA receptor.
TPM is active on the kainate/AMPA subtype of glutamate receptor and at a potentially novel site on the GABA (A) receptor.
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11784734 Svensson E, Grillner S, Parker D: Synaptically evoked membrane potential oscillations induced by substance P in lamprey motor neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2002 Jan;87(1):113-21.

The glutamate receptor antagonist kynurenic acid abolished the substance-P-evoked oscillations, suggesting that they were dependent on glutamate release.
Blocking glycinergic inputs with strychnine resulted in large depolarizing plateaus and bursts of spikes.
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12957225 Matsumoto K, Nomura H, Murakami Y, Taki K, Takahata H, Watanabe H: Long-term social isolation enhances picrotoxin seizure susceptibility in mice: up-regulatory role of endogenous brain allopregnanolone in GABAergic systems. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2003 Jul;75(4):831-5.


Social isolation of mice for 7 weeks prior to the experiments caused a significant increase of seizure susceptibility to the GABA (A) receptor antagonist picrotoxin but not to the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine or the glutamate receptor agonist kainic acid.
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9464928 Kotak VC, Sanes DH: Deafferentation weakens excitatory synapses in the developing central auditory system. Eur J Neurosci. 1997 Nov;9(11):2340-7.


To study the efficacy of excitatory synapses in greater detail, voltage-clamp recordings were made in the presence of strychnine and AP-5 [D (O)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid].
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11516417 Su CK: Intraspinal amino acid neurotransmitter activities are involved in the generation of rhythmic sympathetic nerve discharge in newborn rat spinal cord. Brain Res. 2001 Jun 15;904(1):112-25.


In contrast, strychnine (Stry, glycine receptor antagonist) consistently reduced qSND in a dose-dependent manner.
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7970183 Hunter JC, Singh L: Role of excitatory amino acid receptors in the mediation of the nociceptive response to formalin in the rat. Neurosci Lett. 1994 Jun 20;174(2):217-21.

The relative contribution of the NMDA/glycine allosteric site and non-NMDA (AMPA) types of glutamate receptor to the acute and tonic phases of the behavioural nociceptive response to formalin has been studied in the rat.
In contrast, the strychnine-insensitive glycine site partial agonist (+)-HA-966 and the NMDA competitive antagonist CGS 19755 preferentially attenuated the tonic nociceptive phase.
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15993440 Ghavanini AA, Mathers DA, Puil E: Glycinergic inhibition in thalamus revealed by synaptic receptor blockade. . Neuropharmacology. 2005 Sep;49(3):338-49.

Using juvenile rat brain slices, we examined the possibility that strychnine-sensitive receptors for glycine-like amino acids contributed to synaptic inhibition in ventrobasal thalamus, where gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) is the prevalent inhibitory transmitter.
Using glutamate receptor antagonists, we isolated inhibitory postsynaptic potentials and currents (IPSPs and IPSCs) evoked by high-threshold stimulation of medial lemniscus.
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11054688 Panigrahy A, Rosenberg PA, Assmann S, Foley EC, Kinney HC: Differential expression of glutamate receptor subtypes in human brainstem sites involved in perinatal hypoxia-ischemia. J Comp Neurol. 2000 Nov 13;427(2):196-208.

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9744942 Tian N, Hwang TN, Copenhagen DR: Analysis of excitatory and inhibitory spontaneous synaptic activity in mouse retinal ganglion cells. J Neurophysiol. 1998 Sep;80(3):1327-40.


Glutamate receptor-mediated sEPSCs had an average rise time of 0.50 +/- 0.20 ms (n = 109) and an average monoexponential decay time constant of 5.9 +/- 8.6 ms (n = 2705).
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9202334 Matoba M, Tomita U, Nishikawa T: Characterization of 5,7-dichlorokynurenate-insensitive D-[3H] serine binding to synaptosomal fraction isolated from rat brain tissues. J Neurochem. 1997 Jul;69(1):399-405.

To explore target sites for endogenous D-serine that are different from the glycine site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type glutamate receptor, we have studied the binding of D-[3H] serine to the synaptosomal P2 fraction prepared from the rat brain and peripheral tissues in the presence of an excess concentration (100 microM) of the glycine site antagonist 5,7-dichlorokynurenate (DCK).
Strychnine and 7-chlorokynurenate failed to inhibit the binding at 10 microM.
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14770276 Wejksza K, Rzeski W, Parada-Turska J, Zdzisinska B, Rejdak R, Kocki T, Okuno E, Kandefer-Szerszen M, Zrenner E, Turski WA: Kynurenic acid production in cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2004 Mar;369(3):300-4. Epub 2004 Feb 10.

The selective ionotropic glutamate receptor agonists alpha-amino-2,3-dihydro-5-methyl-3-oxo-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) and NMDA were ineffective in this respect.
Kynurenic acid (KYNA) is a broad-spectrum antagonist at all subtypes of ionotropic glutamate receptors, but is preferentially active at the strychnine-insensitive glycine allosteric site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and is also a non-competitive antagonist at the alpha7 nicotinic receptor.
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11160487 Terman GW, Eastman CL, Chavkin C: Mu opiates inhibit long-term potentiation induction in the spinal cord slice. J Neurophysiol. 2001 Feb;85(2):485-94.

Transverse slices were made from the lumbar spinal cord of 10- to 17-day-old rats, placed in a recording chamber, and perfused with artificial cerebrospinal fluid also containing bicuculline (10 microM) and strychnine (1 microM).
Only LT-evoked field potentials were found to be reliably inhibited by the mu opioid receptor agonist [D-Ala (2), N-Me-Phe (4), Gly (5)] enkephalin-ol (DAMGO, 1 microM), although evoked potentials from both DR and LT were blocked by the AMPA/kainate glutamate receptor antagonist 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxalene-2,3-dione.
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11698544 Bourque MJ, Kolta A: Properties and interconnections of trigeminal interneurons of the lateral pontine reticular formation in the rat. J Neurophysiol. 2001 Nov;86(5):2583-96.

All EPSPs induced by stimulation of PeriV, PCRt, or NVmt were sensitive to ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists 6-cyano-7-dinitroquinoxaline and D,L-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid, while IPSPs were blocked by bicuculline and strychnine, antagonists of GABA (A) and glycine receptors.
All EPSPs induced by stimulation of PeriV, PCRt, or NVmt were sensitive to ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists 6-cyano-7-dinitroquinoxaline and D,L-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid, while IPSPs were blocked by bicuculline and strychnine, antagonists of GABA (A) and glycine receptors.
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10624061 Ohta M, Sasamoto K, Kuraoka N, Nishimuta K: Glutamate activates neuronal discharges and rhythmical jaw movements in the rat. Fukuoka Igaku Zasshi. 1999 Nov;90(11):418-33.

Glutamate receptor blocking agents, cyano-nitroquinoxaline-dione and D-amino-phosphono-valerate were examined and the former was more effective on 17 neurons although the latter was more effective on three and both were equally effective on 13.
Inhibitory synaptic mechanism is not necessary for RJM-generation since bicuculline or strychnine did not significantly alter the rhythmical pattern of activity in any neuron.
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10938323 Chery N, De Koninck Y: GABA (B) receptors are the first target of released GABA at lamina I inhibitory synapses in the adult rat spinal cord. J Neurophysiol. 2000 Aug;84(2):1006-11.


Focal stimulation in the vicinity of visually identified lamina I neurons elicited monosynaptic IPSCs in the presence of ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists.
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7574061 Bansinath M, Shukla VK, Turndorf H: Propofol modulates the effects of chemoconvulsants acting at GABAergic, glycinergic, and glutamate receptor subtypes. Anesthesiology. 1995 Oct;83(4):809-15.

The main objective of this study was to characterize the effect of propofol pretreatment on convulsions induced by picrotoxin, bicuculline, and strychnine, all which decrease inhibitory neurotransmission, and by N-methyl-D-aspartic acid, kainic acid, and quisqualic acid, which enhance excitatory neurotransmission.
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15229213 Wong KY, Adolph AR, Dowling JE: Retinal bipolar cell input mechanisms in giant danio. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Jan;93(1):84-93. Epub 2004 Jun 30.

Picrotoxin, strychnine, and tetrodotoxin were used to isolate the effects of the glutamate analogs to the photoreceptor-bipolar cell synapse.
Under photopic conditions, the group III metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) antagonist (RS)-alpha-cyclopropyl-4-phosphonophenylglycine (CPPG) only slightly reduced the b-wave, whereas the excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) blocker dl-threo-beta-benzyl-oxyaspartate (TBOA) removed most of it.
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8052412 Saransaari P, Oja SS: Regulation of D-aspartate release by glutamate and GABA receptors in cerebral cortical slices from developing and ageing mice. Neuroscience. 1994 May;60(1):191-8.

Kainate, N-methyl-D-aspartate and quisqualate (0.1 mM) stimulated the basal release of D-aspartate in the cerebral cortex of seven-day-old mice, the effects of kainate and N-methyl-D-aspartate being reduced by their antagonists 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) and dizocilpine maleate, respectively, indicating that in the immature cerebral cortex the kainate and N-methyl-D-aspartate types of the glutamate receptor are involved in the basal release.
The glycine effect was strychnine-insensitive, characteristic of the glycine modulatory site in the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor.
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10228452 Micheli F, Di Fabio R, Capelli AM, Cugola A, Curcuruto O, Feriani A, Gastaldi P, Gaviraghi G, Marchioro C, Orlandi A, Pozzan A, Quaglia AM, Reggiani A, van Amsterdam F: Cycloalkyl indole-2-carboxylates as useful tools for mapping the "north-eastern" region of the glycine binding site associated with the NMDA receptor. Arch Pharm. 1999 Mar;332(3):73-80.

Among the derivatives prepared, 3-[2-(1-adamantylaminocarbonyl) ethenyl]-4,6-dichloroindole-2 -carboxylic acid 6b and 3-[2-(norbornylaminocarbonyl) ethenyl]-4,6-dichloroindole-2-c arboxylic acid 6l were found to be antagonists acting at the strychnine-insensitive glycine binding site, showing nanomolar affinity for the glycine binding site (Ki = 63 and 19 nM, respectively), coupled with high glutamate receptor selectivity (IC50 > 10 (-5) M at the NMDA, AMPA, KA binding sites) and high in vivo potency after systemic administration by inhibition of convulsion induced by NMDA in mice.
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17537680 Li DP, Yang Q: Membrane and synaptic properties of nucleus tractus solitarius neurons projecting to the caudal ventrolateral medulla. Auton Neurosci. 2007 Oct 30;136(1-2):69-81. Epub 2007 May 29.

Bath application of an ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonist kynurenic acid and a non-NMDA receptor antagonist CNQX significantly decreased the firing activity in the majority of labeled NTS neurons.
While the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine had no effect on the firing activity, blockade of GABA (A) receptors with bicuculline significantly increased the firing rate in the majority of labeled NTS neurons.
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8558453 Standaert DG, Testa CM, Rudolf GD, Hollingsworth ZR: Inhibition of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor subunit expression by antisense oligonucleotides reveals their role in striatal motor regulation. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1996 Jan;276(1):342-52.

After NMDAR1 antisense ODN injection, striatal binding of 3H-glutamate to NMDA sites was not altered, although strychnine-insensitive 3H-glycine binding sites exhibited a small but significant reduction.
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12213259 Wong JY, Ross SA, McColl C, Massalas JS, Powney E, Finkelstein DI, Clark M, Horne MK, Berkovic SF, Drago J: Proconvulsant-induced seizures in alpha (4) nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit knockout mice. Neuropharmacology. 2002 Jul;43(1):55-64.

We investigated the response of alpha (4) nAChR subunit knockout mice to the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor antagonists; pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and bicuculline (BIC), the glutamate receptor agonist kainic acid (KA), the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine and the K (+) channel blocker 4-aminopyridine (4-AP).
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8624016 Onaka M, Minami T, Nishihara I, Ito S: Involvement of glutamate receptors in strychnine- and bicuculline-induced allodynia in conscious mice. Anesthesiology. 1996 May;84(5):1215-22.

CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate that both strychnine- and bicuculline-evoked allodynia were mediated through pathways that include the glutamate receptor and nitric oxide systems but in a different manner. the current study suggests that GABA and glycine may modulate responses to an innocuous tactile stimulus as inhibitory neurotransmitters at presynaptic and postsynaptic sites in the spinal cord, respectively.
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10890022 Nishikawa T, Yamamoto N, Tsuchida H, Umino A, Kawaguchi N: [Endogenous D-serine in mammalian brains] . Nihon Shinkei Seishin Yakurigaku Zasshi. 2000 Feb;20(1):33-9.

It is well established that, like glycine and D-alanine, D-serine potentiates glutamate neurotransmission via the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor by selective stimulation of its strychnine-insensitive glycine site and acts as a co-agonist of the glutamate receptor.
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9083472 Di Fabio R, Capelli AM, Conti N, Cugola A, Donati D, Feriani A, Gastaldi P, Gaviraghi G, Hewkin CT, Micheli F, Missio A, Mugnaini M, Pecunioso A, Quaglia AM, Ratti E, Rossi L, Tedesco G, Trist DG, Reggiani A: Substituted indole-2-carboxylates as in vivo potent antagonists acting as the strychnine-insensitive glycine binding site. J Med Chem. 1997 Mar 14;40(6):841-50.

A series of indole-2-carboxylates bearing suitable chains at the C-3 position of the indole nucleus was synthesized and evaluated in terms of in vitro affinity using [3H] glycine binding assay and in vivo potency by inhibition of convulsions induced by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) in mice. 3-[2-[(Phenylamino) carbonyl] ethenyl]-4,6-dichloroindole-2-carboxyl ic acid (8) was an antagonist at the strychnine-insensitive glycine binding site (noncompetitive inhibition of the binding of [3H] TCP, pA2 = 8.1) displaying nanomolar affinity for the glycine binding site (pKi = 8.5), coupled with high glutamate receptor selectivity (> 1000-fold relative to the affinity at the NMDA, AMPA, and kainate binding sites).
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19782664 Yin H, Lee KE, Park SA, Bhattarai JP, Suh BJ, Jeon JG, Kim BG, Park SJ, Han SK: Inhibitory effects of somatostatin on the substantia gelatinosa neurons of trigeminal subnucleus caudalis via somatostatin type 2 receptors in juvenile mice. Brain Res. 2009 Dec 22;1304:49-56. Epub 2009 Sep 24.

The SST-induced hyperpolarizing response was maintained in the presence of TTX (Na (+) channel blocker), AP-5 (NMDA receptor antagonist), CNQX (non-NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist), picrotoxin (GABA (A) receptor antagonist) and strychnine (glycine receptor antagonist), respectively, suggesting that SST has direct effects on the postsynaptic SG neurons.
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12743679 Gandolfi O, Voltattorni M, Gaggi R, Dall'Olio R: Repeated administration of the novel antipsychotic olanzapine does not modulate NMDA-sensitive glutamate and 5HT2 serotonin receptors in rats. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2003 Jun;367(6):615-20. Epub 2003 May 13.

Since the binding of the radiolabelled channel blocker [3H]-MK801 is generally considered an affordable index of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)-sensitive glutamate receptor activation, we examined the effects of clinically effective treatment (3 weeks, daily administration) of the atypical antipsychotic drug olanzapine (32 micromol/kg/5 ml) on the specific binding of [3H]-MK801 specific binding and on the strychnine-insensitive glycine sites (glycine B) in synaptic plasma membranes (SPM) prepared from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of rats sacrificed after different (24, 60, 120 h) washout periods.
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9466452 Lin HH, Wu SY, Lai CC, Dun NJ: GABA- and glycine-mediated inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in neonatal rat rostral ventrolateral medulla neurons in vitro. Neuroscience. 1998 Jan;82(2):429-42.

Of the 13 spinally projecting and phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase-positive medullary neurons, focal stimulation elicited in the presence of glutamate receptor antagonists an inhibitory postsynaptic potential in nine neurons.
Inhibitory synaptic potentials were reversibly eliminated by the GABA (A) receptor antagonist bicuculline (10-20 microM) in six of nine neurons, by the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine (0.1-1 microM) in two and by a combination of bicuculline and strychnine in one neuron.
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7807141 Rodriguez-Ithurralde D, Vincent O: Excitotoxicity and cholinergic chemical markers during programmed motor neurone death. J Neurol Sci. 1994 Jul;124 Suppl:52-3.

We measured cholinergic markers and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) molecular forms after glutamate receptor stimulation of superfused slices of mouse spinal cord at different developmental ages.
Strychnine-resistant glycine stimulation potentiated glutamate-induced AChE release, suggesting N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor involvement.
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7472446 Kandler K, Friauf E: Development of glycinergic and glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the auditory brainstem of perinatal rats. J Neurosci. 1995 Oct;15(10):6890-904.

Regardless of their polarity, contralaterally elicited PSPs were reversibly blocked by the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine.
They had a positive reversal potential and could be completely blocked by the non-NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist CNQX.
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7947393 Boatright JH, Rubim NM, Iuvone PM: Regulation of endogenous dopamine release in amphibian retina by gamma-aminobutyric acid and glycine. Vis Neurosci. 1994 Sep-Oct;11(5):1003-12.

Additionally, both strychnine and 7-chlorokynurenate, an antagonist of the strychnine-insensitive glycine-binding site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptor, suppressed light-evoked dopamine release.
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9819238 Moore DR, Kotak VC, Sanes DH: Commissural and lemniscal synaptic input to the gerbil inferior colliculus. J Neurophysiol. 1998 Nov;80(5):2229-36.

Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic responses were characterized by sequentially exposing the slice to ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists [6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) + aminophosphonpentanoic acid (AP-5), or kynurenic acid)], a gamma-aminobutryic acid type A receptor antagonist (bicuculline), and a glycine receptor antagonist (strychnine).
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14523604 Taccola G, Marchetti C, Nistri A: Effect of metabotropic glutamate receptor activity on rhythmic discharges of the neonatal rat spinal cord in vitro. Exp Brain Res. 2003 Dec;153(3):388-93. Epub 2003 Oct 2.

The regular, synchronous bursting emerging in the presence of strychnine and bicuculline was accelerated by t-ACPD with a commensurate decrease in single burst length, an effect antagonized by MCPG which per se did not affect bursting.
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11882376 Jiang MC, Alheid GF, Nunzi MG, Houk JC: Cerebellar input to magnocellular neurons in the red nucleus of the mouse: synaptic analysis in horizontal brain slices incorporating cerebello-rubral pathways. Neuroscience. 2002;110(1):105-21.

Excitatory components of the evoked potentials were studied after blocking inhibitory components with picrotoxin (100 microM) and strychnine (5 microM).
All RNm neurons examined continued to show monosynaptic EPSPs after non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor components were blocked with 10 microM 6,7-dinitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione or 5 microM 2,3-dihydro-6-nitro-7-sulfamoyl-benzo (f)-quinoxaline (NBQX; n=12).
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17110030 Han SK, Park JR, Park SA, Chun SW, Lee JC, Lee SY, Ryu PD, Park SJ: Noradrenaline inhibits substantia gelatinosa neurons in mice trigeminal subnucleus caudalis via alpha (2) and beta adrenoceptors. Neurosci Lett. 2007 Jan 10;411(2):92-7. Epub 2006 Nov 15.

NA-induced hyperpolarizing effects were maintained in the presence of tetrodotoxin (TTX), 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX), d,l-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (AP5), picrotoxin and strychnine, a Na (+) channel, ionotropic glutamate receptor, GABA (A) and glycine receptor antagonists, respectively, indicating that the effects of NA are direct on the postsynaptic SG neurons.
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19023642 Hamasu K, Shigemi K, Tsuneyoshi Y, Yamane H, Sato H, Denbow DM, Furuse M: Intracerebroventricular injection of L-proline and D-proline induces sedative and hypnotic effects by different mechanisms under an acute stressful condition in chicks. Amino Acids. 2010 Jan;38(1):57-64. Epub 2008 Nov 21.

To clarify the mechanism by which L-proline and D-proline induce sedative and hypnotic effects, the contribution of the strychnine-sensitive glycine receptor (glycine receptor) and N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor (NMDA receptor) were further investigated.
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12163521 Rozzo A, Ballerini L, Abbate G, Nistri A: Experimental and modeling studies of novel bursts induced by blocking na (+) pump and synaptic inhibition in the rat spinal cord. J Neurophysiol. 2002 Aug;88(2):676-91.


The strophanthidin rhythm was abolished by glutamate receptor antagonists or tetrodotoxin, indicating its network origin.
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18199816 Suwabe T, Fukami H, Bradley RM: Synaptic responses of neurons controlling the parotid and von Ebner salivary glands in rats to stimulation of the solitary nucleus and tract. J Neurophysiol. 2008 Mar;99(3):1267-73. Epub 2008 Jan 16.

Use of glutamate receptor antagonists indicated that both AMPA and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are involved in the evoked excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs).
Addition of the glycine antagonist strychnine did not affect the amplitude of the IPSPs significantly.
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10591893 Miyazaki M, Tanaka I, Ezure K: Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs shape the discharge pattern of pump neurons of the nucleus tractus solitarii in the rat. Exp Brain Res. 1999 Nov;129(2):191-200.

Third, IE facilitation was diminished by applications of the NMDA glutamate receptor antagonists D-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV) and dizocilpine (MK-801).
First, the glycine antagonist strychnine and the GABA (A) antagonist bicuculline were applied to identify the neurotransmitters acting in eI suppression.
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9819241 Liu YB, Ye GL, Liu XS, Pasternak JF, Trommer BL: GABAA currents in immature dentate gyrus granule cells. J Neurophysiol. 1998 Nov;80(5):2255-67.

It is predominantly chloride mediated, has a relative bicarbonate/chloride permeability ratio of 26%, and is unchanged by bath-applied saclofen and strychnine or by intracellular calcium chelation.
The first, pharmacologically isolated by glutamate receptor blockade, is the product of direct activation of GABA interneurons with monosynaptic input to the recorded GC (monosynaptic GABAA).
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15790752 Mueller PJ, Foley CM, Vogl HW, Hay M, Hasser EM: Cardiovascular response to a group III mGluR agonist in NTS requires NMDA receptors. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2005 Jul;289(1):R198-208. Epub 2005 Mar 24.

Previous studies have demonstrated that microinjection of the putative group III metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonist, l (+)-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (L-AP4), into the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) produces depressor and sympathoinhibitory responses.
Microinjection of glycine (0.02-20 mM) failed to mimic sympathoinhibitory responses to L-AP4, even in the presence of the inhibitory glycine antagonist, strychnine (3 mM).
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18691329 Chapman RJ, Issberner JP, Sillar KT: Group I mGluRs increase locomotor network excitability in Xenopus tadpoles via presynaptic inhibition of glycinergic neurotransmission. Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Sep;28(5):903-13. Epub 2008 Aug 8.

The group I metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist (S)-3,5-dihyroxyphenylglycine (DHPG) increases the frequency of rhythmic swimming activity in Xenopus tadpoles.
Applications of the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine occluded the effects of DHPG, providing preliminary evidence that group I receptors affect motor network output by reducing glycinergic transmission.
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7595597 Rodriguez-Ithurralde D, Olivera S, Migues V, Vincent O, Salazar R: Glutamate-receptor elicited acetylcholinesterase release in mouse spinal cord slice: a model of early excitotoxic injury. J Neurol Sci. 1995 May;129 Suppl:104-6.

In the immature slice, glycine potentiated GLU elicited AChE release in the presence of strychnine, suggesting N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor involvement.
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7881731 Clarke PB, Reuben M: Inhibition by dizocilpine (MK-801) of striatal dopamine release induced by MPTP and MPP+: possible action at the dopamine transporter. Br J Pharmacol. 1995 Jan;114(2):315-22.

In this assay, N-methyl-D-aspartate (even in the absence of Mg2+ and with added glycine and strychnine) did not evoked [3H]-dopamine release. 4.
The NMDA-type glutamate receptor antagonist, dizocilpine (MK-801) can protect against neurotoxicity associated with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and its principal metabolite, the 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP+).
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9498236 Hantzschel A, Andreas K: Efficacy of glutamate receptor antagonists in the management of functional disorders in cytotoxic brain oedema induced by hexachlorophene. Pharmacol Toxicol. 1998 Feb;82(2):80-8.

Similar effects were observed with 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) in the dose of 0.8 mg/kg intraperitoneally, an antagonist interacting both with the strychnine-insensitive binding site for glycine within the NMDA receptor complex and with the kainate (+/-)-alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid (AMPA) receptor complex.
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8899663 Rodriguez-Ithurralde D, Olivera S, La Paz A, Vincent O, Rondeau A: Glycine effects on glutamate-receptor elicited acetylcholinesterase release from slices and synaptosomes of the spinal ventral horn. J Neurol Sci. 1996 Aug;139 Suppl:76-82.

GLY potentiated the GEAR response in the presence of strychnine, suggesting N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor involvement, and was also able to evoke a strychnine-sensitive AChE release in the absence of exogenous GLU.
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11877523 Chattipakorn SC, McMahon LL: Pharmacological characterization of glycine-gated chloride currents recorded in rat hippocampal slices. J Neurophysiol. 2002 Mar;87(3):1515-25.

Furthermore, the same concentration of zinc that potentiates I (gly) suppressed currents mediated by the N-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of the glutamate receptor.
An inhibitory role for strychnine-sensitive glycine-gated chloride channels (GlyRs) in mature hippocampus has been overlooked, largely due to the misconception that GlyR expression ceases early during development and to few functional studies demonstrating their presence.
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9080374 Russo RE, Nagy F, Hounsgaard J: Modulation of plateau properties in dorsal horn neurones in a slice preparation of the turtle spinal cord. J Physiol. 1997 Mar 1;499 ( Pt 2):459-74.

The selective agonist for the type I metabotropic glutamate receptor ((RS)-3,5-dihydrophenylglycine (DHPG, 50 microM)) reproduced all the effects of ACPD. 5.
The tetanic stimulus facilitated wind-up and after-discharges even when fast synaptic transmission was blocked by 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX, 10-20 microM), (+/-)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (AP5, 100 microM), bicuculline (10-20 microM) and strychnine (5-20 microM). 2.
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10718754 Bloomfield SA, Xin D: Surround inhibition of mammalian AII amacrine cells is generated in the proximal retina. J Physiol. 2000 Mar 15;523 Pt 3:771-83.

Application of the glycine antagonist, strychnine, had only minor and variable effects on AII cell responses.
Application of the metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, APB, reversibly blocked both the on-centre and off-surround responses of AII cells.
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8401927 Ishida M, Saitoh T, Shimamoto K, Ohfune Y, Shinozaki H: A novel metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist: marked depression of monosynaptic excitation in the newborn rat isolated spinal cord. Br J Pharmacol. 1993 Aug;109(4):1169-77.

Depression of monosynaptic excitation caused by DCG-IV was not affected by any known pharmacological agents, including 2-amino-3-phosphonopropanoic acid (AP3), diazepam, 2-hydroxysaclofen, picrotoxin and strychnine. 6.
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8836233 Hartveit E: Membrane currents evoked by ionotropic glutamate receptor agonists in rod bipolar cells in the rat retinal slice preparation. J Neurophysiol. 1996 Jul;76(1):401-22.

The conductance increase evoked by non-NMDA receptor agonists could not be blocked by a combination of 100 microM picrotoxin and 10 microM strychnine.
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10747188 Connaughton VP, Nelson R: Axonal stratification patterns and glutamate-gated conductance mechanisms in zebrafish retinal bipolar cells. J Physiol. 2000 Apr 1;524 Pt 1:135-46.


Whole-cell patch recording and puff pipette techniques were used to identify glutamate receptor mechanisms on bipolar cell (BC) dendrites in the zebrafish retinal slice.
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8951717 Nishimaru H, Iizuka M, Ozaki S, Kudo N: Spontaneous motoneuronal activity mediated by glycine and GABA in the spinal cord of rat fetuses in vitro. J Physiol. 1996 Nov 15;497 ( Pt 1):131-43.


The glycine receptor antagonist strychnine (10 microM) completely blocked spontaneous bursts at E14.5-15.5.
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9636118 Cleland TA, Selverston AI: Inhibitory glutamate receptor channels in cultured lobster stomatogastric neurons. J Neurophysiol. 1998 Jun;79(6):3189-96.

The IGluR was weakly blocked by the chloride channel blocker furosemide and the excitatory glutamate receptor antagonist6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX), but was not inhibited by bicuculline methiodide, strychnine, kynurenic acid, gamma--glutamylglycine, or aspartate.
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7834343 Ball EF, Shaw PJ, Ince PG, Johnson M: The distribution of excitatory amino acid receptors in the normal human midbrain and basal ganglia with implications for Parkinson's disease: a quantitative autoradiographic study using [3H] MK-801, [3H] glycine, [3H] CNQX and [3H] kainate. Brain Res. 1994 Sep 26;658(1-2):209-18.

In PD, glutamate receptor activation may contribute to cell death of dopaminergic neurones in the substantia nigra.
In the substantia nigra relatively high densities of [3H] MK-801 and strychnine-insensitive [3H] glycine binding sites representing NMDA receptors were present, whereas only moderate densities of [3H] CNQX and [3H] kainate binding sites were present, compared to other regions.
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8223944 Johansen TH, Drejer J, Watjen F, Nielsen EO: A novel non-NMDA receptor antagonist shows selective displacement of low-affinity [3H] kainate binding. Eur J Pharmacol. 1993 Aug 15;246(3):195-204.


5-Nitro-6,7,8,9-tetrahydrobenzo [G] indole-2,3-dione-3-oxime (NS-102), a new competitive glutamate receptor antagonist displaced binding to non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) binding sites with no activity at the NMDA and strychnine-insensitive glycine binding sites.
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16467527 Kato G, Yasaka T, Katafuchi T, Furue H, Mizuno M, Iwamoto Y, Yoshimura M: Direct GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition of the substantia gelatinosa from the rostral ventromedial medulla revealed by in vivo patch-clamp analysis in rats. J Neurosci. 2006 Feb 8;26(6):1787-94.


Serotonin receptor antagonists were unexpectedly without effect, but a GABAA receptor antagonist, bicuculline, or a glycine receptor antagonist, strychnine, completely suppressed the RVM stimulation-induced increase in IPSCs.
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11152721 Aoki F, Wannier T, Grillner S: Slow dorsal-ventral rhythm generator in the lamprey spinal cord. . J Neurophysiol. 2001 Jan;85(1):211-8.


In the isolated lamprey spinal cord, a very slow rhythm (0.03-0.11 Hz), superimposed on fast N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced locomotor activity (0.26-2.98 Hz), could be induced by a blockade of GABA (A) or glycine receptors or by administration of (1 s, 3 s)-l-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid a metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist.
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14673187 Whyment AD, Wilson JM, Renaud LP, Spanswick D: Activation and integration of bilateral GABA-mediated synaptic inputs in neonatal rat sympathetic preganglionic neurones in vitro. J Physiol. 2004 Feb 15;555(Pt 1):189-203. Epub 2003 Dec 12.

In the presence of glutamate receptor antagonists (NBQX, 5 microm and D-APV, 10 microm), electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral or contralateral lateral funiculi (iLF and cLF, respectively) revealed monosynaptic inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) in 75% and 65% of SPNs, respectively.
In three neurones IPSPs evoked by stimulation of the iLF (n = 1) or cLF (n = 2) were partly sensitive to strychnine (2 microM).
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7538566 Grant GB, Dowling JE: A glutamate-activated chloride current in cone-driven ON bipolar cells of the white perch retina. J Neurosci. 1995 May;15(5 Pt 2):3852-62.


IGlu was not blocked by 100 microM picrotoxin or 1 microM strychnine, indicating that it was not caused by inhibitory input.
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12663257 Chen Z, Travers JB: Inactivation of amino acid receptors in medullary reticular formation modulates and suppresses ingestion and rejection responses in the awake rat. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2003 Jul;285(1):R68-83. Epub 2003 Mar 27.


Bilateral infusions of the GABA (A) receptor antagonist bicuculline or the glycine receptor antagonist strychnine enhanced the amplitude of IO stimulation-induced oral responses.
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