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KAR
(redirected from Kainate receptor)

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KarKarnataka (India)
KARKentucky Administrative Regulations
KARKing's African Rifles
KARKirby Air Ride (game)
KARKainate Receptor (neuroscience)
KARKey Account Representative
KARKinematic Ambiguity Resolution
KARAlpha-Keto Acid Reductase
KARAromatic Alpha-Keto Acid Reductase
KARKey Accounting Requirement (US DoD)


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The electrical activity of the waking brain triggers the series of events controlled by the BDNF protein, which makes kainate receptor activity to disappear in some synapses.
In particular, the invention provides a method of inducing a permanent change in the neurological development of a rodent, such as a rat, comprising daily administration of low doses of a kainate receptor agonist to the animal in the second postnatal week, wherein after treatment with the kainate receptor agonist the animal exhibits reproducible seizure-like symptoms when exposed to mild to moderate stressors.
 
 
 
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