What Is mGluR5 and How Is It Linked to Autism?
mGluR5 is a metabotropic glutamate receptor that modulates how neurons respond to the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. A Yale-led brain imaging…
glutamate
The brain’s primary excitatory neurotransmitter, central to synaptic transmission, plasticity, metabolism, and excitotoxicity.