Glutamatergic Transmission: A Matter of Three

Table 1

Glial glutamate receptors. Summary of described glial glutamate receptors.

Glu receptor	Preparation	Reference
AMPA/KA without GluA2	BGC	[7, 11, 13]
AMPA	Oligodendrocytes precursor cells (OPCs)	[28, 29]
AMPA/KA	Cortical astrocytes	[30, 31]
AMPA/KA	Oligodendrocytes	[32]
GluA1, A2, A3, A4	Astrocytes isolated from CA1 region	[33]
GluA4, GluK5	Perivascular astrocytic processes	[34]
GluA2, A3, A4, A5, GluK1, K2	Microglia	[35]
KA Ca^2+-permeable receptors	Glial cells of mouse hippocampal slices	[36]
KA Ca^2+-permeable receptors	BGC	[7]
GluK1, K2	Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes	[37]
GluN1	Müller glial cells	[38]
GluN1, N2A, N2B	Cortical astrocytes	[39–41]
GluN1, N2A, N2B	BGC	[42]
GluN1, N2A, N2B, N2C, N2D, N3A, N3B	Human primary astrocytes	[43]
NMDA	OPCs, immature and mature oligodendrocytes in the white matter of cerebellum and corpus callosum	[44, 45]
AMPA, KA, NMDA	Glial cells in rat spinal cord slice	[46]
mGluR 5	Astrocytes	[47, 48]
mGluR 2, mGluR 3	Glial cells in several regions of the brain	[49, 50]
mGluR groups I and II	Human astrocytes	[51]
mGluR groups I, II, and III	OPCs and oligodendrocytes	[52]
mGluR	Microglia	[47, 53, 54]