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 4-aminopyridine
CAS 4-pyridinamine

Reference List

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11102477 Ango F, Pin JP, Tu JC, Xiao B, Worley PF, Bockaert J, Fagni L: Dendritic and axonal targeting of type 5 metabotropic glutamate receptor is regulated by homer1 proteins and neuronal excitation. J Neurosci. 2000 Dec 1;20(23):8710-6.

Depolarization of the neurons with a mixture of ionotropic glutamate receptor agonists, NMDA and kainate, or potassium channel blockers, tetraethylammonium and 4-aminopyridine, induced transient expression of endogenous Homer1a and persistent neuritic localization of transfected mGluR5 even long after degradation of Homer1a.
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15094514 Reddy DS: Anticonvulsant activity of the testosterone-derived neurosteroid 3alpha-androstanediol. Neuroreport. 2004 Mar 1;15(3):515-8.

However, 3alpha-androstanediol was inactive against seizures induced by glutamate receptor agonists kainic acid, NMDA and 4-aminopyridine.
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11773238 Hirasawa H, Shiells R, Yamada M: A metabotropic glutamate receptor regulates transmitter release from cone presynaptic terminals in carp retinal slices. J Gen Physiol. 2002 Jan;119(1):55-68.

During L-APB application, recovery of sEPSC rate occurred with 500 microM (s)-2-methyl-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate (MAP4), a selective antagonist of group III mGluR, and with 200 microM 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), a blocker of voltage-dependent potassium channels.
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15716411 Xu J, Kang N, Jiang L, Nedergaard M, Kang J: Activity-dependent long-term potentiation of intrinsic excitability in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. J Neurosci. 2005 Feb 16;25(7):1750-60.


The results suggest that induction of LTP-IE shares a similar signaling pathway with the late phase of synaptic LTP and requires activation of the NMDA glutamate receptor subtype, Ca2+ influx, activity of CaM kinase II, and function of the protein synthesis.
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18538357 Salah A, Perkins KL: Effects of subtype-selective group I mGluR antagonists on synchronous activity induced by 4-aminopyridine/CGP 55845 in adult guinea pig hippocampal slices. Neuropharmacology. 2008 Jul;55(1):47-54. Epub 2008 Apr 23.

Here we tested the effects of the group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) subtype-selective antagonists LY 367385 (mGlu1, 100 microM), MPEP (mGlu5, 10 microM), and MTEP (mGlu5, 500 nM) on this synchronous activity.
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12364493 Lee AC, Wong RK, Chuang SC, Shin HS, Bianchi R: Role of synaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors in epileptiform discharges in hippocampal slices. J Neurophysiol. 2002 Oct;88(4):1625-33.

Application of group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonists elicits seizure discharges in vivo and prolonged ictal-like activity in in vitro brain slices.
Addition of 4-aminopyridine (4-AP; 100 microM) prolonged these bursts to 0.7-2 s.
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15979855 Thuault SJ, Brown JT, Calver AR, Collingridge GL, Randall A, Davies CH: Mechanisms contributing to the exacerbated epileptiform activity in hippocampal slices expressing a C-terminal truncated GABA (B2) receptor subunit. Epilepsy Res. 2005 Jun;65(1-2):41-51.

Furthermore, synchronous GABA (A) receptor-mediated potentials recorded in the presence of the potassium channel blocker 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, 100muM) and the ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists NBQX (20muM) and D-AP5 (50muM) were significantly prolonged in duration in DeltaGB2-Ct versus WT slices.
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12576146 Szakacs R, Weiczner R, Mihaly A, Krisztin-Peva B, Zador Z, Zador E: Non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonists moderate seizure-induced c-fos expression in the rat cerebral cortex. Brain Res Bull. 2003 Feb 15;59(6):485-93.

We examined the effects of non-competitive NMDA glutamate receptor antagonists on seizures elicited by 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), and in particular, on the expression of the transcription factor c-fos induced by these seizures.
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18394864 Zhu L, Polley N, Mathews GC, Delpire E: NKCC1 and KCC2 prevent hyperexcitability in the mouse hippocampus. . Epilepsy Res. 2008 May;79(2-3):201-12. Epub 2008 Apr 3.

Furthermore, the pro-convulsant agent 4-aminopyridine induces seizure-like events in NKCC1-null mice but not in wild-type mice.
This increase in the Cl (-) concentration is network-driven and activity-dependent, as it is blocked by the non-NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist DNQX.
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12950453 Craig TJ, Evans GJ, Morgan A: Physiological regulation of Munc18/nSec1 phosphorylation on serine-313. J Neurochem. 2003 Sep;86(6):1450-7.

Furthermore, Ser-313 is rapidly and transiently phosphorylated in intact synaptosomes in response to depolarization by KCl treatment or by 4-aminopyridine, and by the metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist dihydroxyphenylglycine.
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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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17027043 Garduno-Torres B, Trevino M, Gutierrez R, Arias-Montano JA: Pre-synaptic histamine H3 receptors regulate glutamate, but not GABA release in rat thalamus. Neuropharmacology. 2007 Feb;52(2):527-35. Epub 2006 Oct 5.


H (3) R activation reduced by 38+/-7% the glutamate receptor-mediated field potentials (FPs), but increased the FP2/FP1 ratio (from 0.86+/-0.03 to 1.38+/-0.05) in a paired-pulse paradigm.
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10591401 Saransaari P, Oja SS: Taurine release is enhanced in cell-damaging conditions in cultured cerebral cortical astrocytes. Neurochem Res. 1999 Dec;24(12):1523-9.


Astrocytic taurine release was enhanced by K+ (50 mM), veratridine (0.1 mM) and the ionotropic glutamate receptor agonist kainate (1.0 mM).
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10668433 Obrenovitch TP: High extracellular glutamate and neuronal death in neurological disorders. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1999;890:273-86.


In models of neurological disorders, increased extracellular glutamate and beneficial effects produced by glutamate-receptor antagonists are consistently taken as supporting evidence of excitotoxicity.
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11026447 Dzhala V, Ben-Ari Y, Khazipov R: Seizures accelerate anoxia-induced neuronal death in the neonatal rat hippocampus. Ann Neurol. 2000 Oct;48(4):632-40.

Aggravation of electrographic seizure activity during anoxic episodes by the adenosine A1 receptor antagonists DPCPX and caffeine or the gamma-aminobutyric acid-A receptor antagonist bicuculline or pretreatment with 4-aminopyridine accelerated AD and associated neuronal death by up to twofold, whereas blockade of seizure activity by the glutamate receptor antagonists or tetrodotoxin significantly delayed the onset of AD.
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10658620 Kearney JA, Albin RL: Intrasubthalamic nucleus metabotropic glutamate receptor activation: a behavioral, Fos immunohistochemical and [14C] 2-deoxyglucose autoradiographic study. Neuroscience. 2000;95(2):409-16.

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15537816 Skov J, Nedergaard S, Andreasen M: New type of synaptically mediated epileptiform activity independent of known glutamate and GABA receptors. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Apr;93(4):1845-56. Epub 2004 Nov 10.

The effect of Cs+ was partly mimicked by 4-aminopyridine (4-AP; 2 mM), suggesting that an increase in transmitter release is involved.
The group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonist (RS)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG) attenuated the Cs-FP.
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11983316 Yang L, Benardo LS: Laminar properties of 4-aminopyridine-induced synchronous network activities in rat neocortex. Neuroscience. 2002;111(2):303-13.

Ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists blocked the 4-AP-induced synchronous activities in middle and deep layer slices, but those in superficial slices persisted.
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11430896 Yang Q, Michelson HB: Gap junctions synchronize the firing of inhibitory interneurons in guinea pig hippocampus. Brain Res. 2001 Jul 13;907(1-2):139-43.

The convulsant 4-aminopyridine (4AP) facilitates the synchronous firing of interneurons in the hippocampus, eliciting giant inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) in CA3 pyramidal cells.
Carbenoxolone abolished all synchronized IPSPs in CA3 cells elicited by 4AP in the presence of ionotropic glutamate receptor blockers.
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15880762 Rzeski W, Kocki T, Dybel A, Wejksza K, Zdzisinska B, Kandefer-Szerszen M, Turski WA, Okuno E, Albrecht J: Demonstration of kynurenine aminotransferases I and II and characterization of kynurenic acid synthesis in cultured cerebral cortical neurons. J Neurosci Res. 2005 Jun 1;80(5):677-82.


Neuronal, but not astrocytic, KYNA synthesis was lowered approximately 30% by ionotropic glutamate receptor agonists [(R,S)-3-hydroxy-5-methoxyloxasole-4-propionic acid (AMPA; 100 microM) and N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA; 100 microM)] and depolarizing agents [KCl (50 mM) and 4-aminopyridine (4-AP; 10 microM)].
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12629172 Gebremedhin D, Yamaura K, Zhang C, Bylund J, Koehler RC, Harder DR: Metabotropic glutamate receptor activation enhances the activities of two types of Ca2+-activated k+ channels in rat hippocampal astrocytes. J Neurosci. 2003 Mar 1;23(5):1678-87.

The influence of activation of glutamate receptor (GluR) on outward K (+) current in cultured neonate rat hippocampal astrocytes was investigated.
Patch-clamp analysis of K (+) channel currents in cultured astrocytes identified the existence of 71 +/- 6 and 161 +/- 11 pS single-channel K (+) currents that were sensitive to changes in voltage and [Ca (2+)](i) and blocked by external TEA but not by charybdotoxin, iberiotoxin, apamin, or 4-aminopyridine.
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17402970 Wang M, Bianchi R, Chuang SC, Zhao W, Wong RK: Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent TRPC channel trafficking in hippocampal neurons. J Neurochem. 2007 Apr;101(2):411-21.

Translocation of TRPC4 and TRPC5 was also prevented in slices from phospholipase C (PLC) beta1 knockout mice, even when synchronized discharges were elicited by the convulsant 4-aminopyridine.
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19693274 Fu Y, Sun W, Shi Y, Shi R, Cheng JX: Glutamate excitotoxicity inflicts paranodal myelin splitting and retraction. PLoS One. 2009 Aug 20;4(8):e6705.

The use of 4-aminopyridine, a broad-spectrum K+ channel blocker, effectively recovered both the amplitude and width of compound action potentials.
Examinations of glutamate receptor agonists and antagonists further showed that the paranodal myelin damage was mediated by NMDA and kainate receptors.
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11113304 Pena F, Tapia R: Seizures and neurodegeneration induced by 4-aminopyridine in rat hippocampus in vivo: role of glutamate- and GABA-mediated neurotransmission and of ion channels. Neuroscience. 2000;101(3):547-61.

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11731544 Martin ED, Araque A, Buno W: Synaptic regulation of the slow Ca2+-activated K+ current in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons: implication in epileptogenesis. J Neurophysiol. 2001 Dec;86(6):2878-86.


Because synaptic transmission is enhanced during epilepsy, we investigated the synaptically mediated regulation of the sI (AHP) and its control of neuronal excitability during epileptiform activity induced by 4-aminopyridine (4AP) or 4AP+Mg2+-free treatment in rat hippocampal slices.
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19154779 Borbely S, Dobo E, Czege D, Molnar E, Bakos M, Szucs B, Vincze A, Vilagi I, Mihaly A: Modification of ionotropic glutamate receptor-mediated processes in the rat hippocampus following repeated, brief seizures. Neuroscience. 2009 Mar 3;159(1):358-68. Epub 2008 Dec 27.

Daily repeated epileptic seizures were induced for 12 days by intraperitoneal administration of 4-aminopyridine (4-AP; 4.5 mg/kg) in adult Wistar rats.
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12694926 Sayin U, Rutecki PA: Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor activation produces prolonged epileptiform neuronal synchronization and alters evoked population responses in the hippocampus. Epilepsy Res. 2003 Mar;53(3):186-95.

To test the possibility that a reduction of the first evoked population spike and loss of inhibition of a second evoked population spike generated prolonged ictal discharges, we used 4-aminopyridine (4-AP 50 microM) to enhance synaptic transmission. 4-AP converted ictal discharges produced by DHPG to an interictal pattern of synchronous activity, reversed the DHPG-induced reduction in the first evoked population spike, and changed paired-pulse facilitation to inhibition.
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11160501 Cepeda C, Hurst RS, Altemus KL, Flores-Hernandez J, Calvert CR, Jokel ES, Grandy DK, Low MJ, Rubinstein M, Ariano MA, Levine MS: Facilitated glutamatergic transmission in the striatum of D2 dopamine receptor-deficient mice. J Neurophysiol. 2001 Feb;85(2):659-70.

Bath application of the K+ channel blocker 4-aminopyridine (100 microM) and bicuculline methiodide (10 microM, to block synaptic activity due to activation of GABA (A) receptors) markedly increased spontaneous synaptic activity in receptor-deficient mutants and WTs.
In voltage-clamp recordings, there was an increase in frequency of spontaneous glutamate receptor-mediated inward currents without a change in mean amplitude in D2 receptor-deficient mutants.
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19445932 Vilagi I, Dobo E, Borbely S, Czege D, Molnar E, Mihaly A: Repeated 4-aminopyridine induced seizures diminish the efficacy of glutamatergic transmission in the neocortex. Exp Neurol. 2009 Sep;219(1):136-45. Epub 2009 May 13.

The results of our coordinated electrophysiological, receptor-pharmacological and histoblot studies demonstrated that repeated, daily, short convulsions resulted in a significant decrease of the general excitability of the somatosensory cortex together with changes in ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits.
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17822807 Oleskovicz SP, Martins WC, Leal RB, Tasca CI: Mechanism of guanosine-induced neuroprotection in rat hippocampal slices submitted to oxygen-glucose deprivation. Neurochem Int. 2008 Feb;52(3):411-8. Epub 2007 Aug 1.


Nifedipine (a Ca (2+) channel blocker) increased the neuroprotective effect of guanosine and 4-aminopyridine, a K (+) channel blocker, reversed the neuroprotective effect of guanosine.
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11923408 Araque A, Martin ED, Perea G, Arellano JI, Buno W: Synaptically released acetylcholine evokes Ca2+ elevations in astrocytes in hippocampal slices. J Neurosci. 2002 Apr 1;22(7):2443-50.


Both astrocytic responses were abolished by tetrodotoxin or Cd2+ and were increased by 4-aminopyridine, indicating that the responses were attributable to synaptically released neurotransmitter.
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11287496 Inoue T, Lin X, Kohlmeier KA, Orr HT, Zoghbi HY, Ross WN: Calcium dynamics and electrophysiological properties of cerebellar Purkinje cells in SCA1 transgenic mice. J Neurophysiol. 2001 Apr;85(4):1750-60.

PCs in SCA1 mice had Na (+) spikes, Ca (2+) spikes, climbing fiber (CF) electrical responses, parallel fiber (PF) electrical responses, and metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR)-mediated, PF-evoked Ca (2+) release from intracellular stores that were qualitatively similar to those recorded from WT mice.
This delay was increased by hyperpolarizing prepulses and was eliminated by 4-aminopyridine, which suggests that this delay was due to enhancement of the A-like K (+) conductance in the SCA1 PCs.
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11739569 Hu H, Shao LR, Chavoshy S, Gu N, Trieb M, Behrens R, Laake P, Pongs O, Knaus HG, Ottersen OP, Storm JF: Presynaptic Ca2+-activated K+ channels in glutamatergic hippocampal terminals and their role in spike repolarization and regulation of transmitter release. J Neurosci. 2001 Dec 15;21(24):9585-97.

Double-labeling immunogold analysis with BK channel and glutamate receptor antibodies indicated that BK channels are targeted to the presynaptic membrane facing the synaptic cleft in terminals of Schaffer collaterals in stratum radiatum.
This was observed in the presence of 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, 40-100 microm), which broadened the presynaptic compound action potential.
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10852214 Lefebvre C, Fisher K, Cahill CM, Coderre TJ: Evidence that DHPG-induced nociception depends on glutamate release from primary afferent C-fibres. Neuroreport. 2000 Jun 5;11(8):1631-5.

Pretreatment with drugs that have been shown to inhibit glutamate release, including a group II metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonist (2R,4R)-4-aminopyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate ((2R,4R)-APDC), a group III mGluR agonist L-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate (L-AP4), or the use-dependent sodium channel blockers 3,5-diamino-6-(2,3-diclorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazine (lamotrigine) and 2-amino-6-trifluoromethoxybenzothiazole (riluzole), produced dose-dependent reductions in (RS)-DHPG-induced SNBs.
We have also shown that incubation of rat lumbar spinal cord slices with (RS)-DHPG potentiates 4-aminopyridine-evoked (4-AP) release of glutamate.
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11311981 Sequeira SM, Malva JO, Carvalho AP, Carvalho CM: Presynaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation inhibits neurotransmitter release through nitric oxide formation in rat hippocampal nerve terminals. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2001 Apr 18;89(1-2):111-8.

Thus, we investigated whether ionotropic glutamate receptor activation in isolated nerve terminals regulates neurotransmitter release, through nitric oxide formation.
N-Methyl-D-aspartate dose-dependently inhibited the release of glutamate evoked by 4-aminopyridine (IC (50)=155 microM), and this effect was reversed by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist D-(-)-2-amino-5-phosphopentanoic acid and by the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, L-nitroarginine, in synaptosomes isolated from whole hippocampus, CA3 and CA1 areas, but not from the dentate gyrus.
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11872250 Santangeli S, Sills GJ, Stone TW, Brodie MJ: Differential effects of remacemide and desglycinyl-remacemide on epileptiform burst firing in the rat hippocampal slice. Neurosci Lett. 2002 Mar 15;321(1-2):33-6.

Both moieties have been reported to block neuronal Na (+) channels and the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptor.
The effects of remacemide and DGR on zero Mg (2+)/4-aminopyridine-induced epileptiform discharges were investigated in the rat hippocampal slice preparation and compared with carbamazepine (CBZ), a prototypic Na (+) channel blocker, and AR-R15896AR, a putative NMDA channel blocker.
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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.
KYNA production was inhibited by the aminotransferase inhibitor aminooxyacetic acid but was not affected by a depolarising concentration of K (+) or by 4-aminopyridine.
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