Glutamatergic Synapse Pathway
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter at almost all synapses in the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS). Glutamate is packaged into synaptic vesicles in the glutamatergic presynaptic terminals, and released into the synaptic cleft through the fusion of synaptic vesicles to the membrane at the active zone. Once released, glutamate acts on postsynaptic glutamate receptors…