Metabotropic glutamate receptor

Question 1

metabotropic glutamate receptors tend to be located

Answer 1

edge of postsynaptic mebrane

Question 2

First two steps of cascade

Answer 2

G protein

Phospholipase C

Question 3

Middle steps of cascade

Answer 3

PIP2
DAG
Protein kinase C

Question 4

Finals steps of cascade

Answer 4

Calmodulin
CaMKII
AMPA phosphorylation

Question 5

Phosphorylation of AMPA receptors causes them

Answer 5

to open more frequently and longer

Question 6

PLC also does this

Answer 6

affects IP3, raising intracellular Ca++, activating calmodulin (CaM)

Question 7

diagram

Answer 7

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