Molecular neuroscience

Glutamate decarboxylase or glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is an enzyme that catalyzes the decarboxylation of glutamate to GABA and CO2.

The active zone or synaptic active zone is a term first used by Couteaux and Pecot-Dechavassinein in 1970 to define the site of neurotransmitter release.

Orexin, also called hypocretin, is a neuropeptide that regulates arousal, wakefulness, and appetite.

Amyloid beta (Aβ or Abeta) denotes peptides of 36–43 amino acids that are crucially involved in Alzheimer's disease as the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer patients.

Molecular neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that observes concepts in molecular biology applied to the nervous systems of animals.

Agrin is a large proteoglycan whose best-characterised role is in the development of the neuromuscular junction during embryogenesis.

The postsynaptic density (PSD) is a protein dense specialization attached to the postsynaptic membrane.

There are three known mammalian tachykinin receptors termed NK1, NK2 and NK3.

The synapsins are a family of proteins that have long been implicated in the regulation of neurotransmitter release at synapses.

Neurotransmitters, also known as chemical messengers, are endogenous chemicals that enable neurotransmission.

The ATP-gated P2X Receptor Cation Channel (P2X Receptor) Family (TC# 1.A.7) consists of cation-permeable ligand gated ion channels that open in response to the binding of extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP).

Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII), also known as N-acetyl-L-aspartyl-L-glutamate peptidase I (NAALADase I), NAAG peptidase, or prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FOLH1 (folate hydrolase 1) gene.