Current Biology
Volume 9, Issue 22, 18 November 1999, Pages R848-R850
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Synapse structure: Glutamate receptors connected by the shanks

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Abstract

A family of proteins has been identified whose members, the Shanks, physically link two major receptor complexes at excitatory synapses – NMDA receptors and metabotropic glutamate receptors.

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Cell Biology
Neuroscience

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MD Ehlers, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3209, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. E-mail: [email protected].