Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Vesicular glutamate release from central axons contributes to myelin damage

  • Sean Doyle,
  • Daniel Bloch Hansen,
  • Jasmine Vella,
  • Peter Bond,
  • Glenn Harper,
  • Christian Zammit,
  • Mario Valentino,
  • Robert Fern

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03427-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Neuronal activity can lead to vesicular release of glutamate. Here the authors demonstrate that vesicular release of glutamate occurs in axons during ischemic conditions, and that an allosteric modulator of GluN2C/D is protective in models of ischemic injury.