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p38

20022-04-19: reference:

p38 MAPK #

They respond to physically-cellularly stressful stimuli like osmotic shock and oxidative stress.

  • Linked to NMDA-evoked Prostaglandin release. But it’s just linked to excessive NMDA activation via MAPKK.
  • [Astrocytic p38α MAPK drives NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression and modulates long-term memory]
    • LTD induction enhances astrocyte-to-neuron communication mediated by glutamate, and that Ca2+ signaling and SNARE-dependent vesicular release from the astrocyte are required for LTD expression… low-frequency astrocytic activation, in the absence of presynaptic activity, is sufficient to induce postsynaptic AMPA receptor removal and LTD expression
    • Removal of astrocytic (but not neuronal) p38α abolishes LTD expression.
  • p38 MAP kinase-mediated NMDA receptor-dependent suppression of hippocampal hypersynchronicity in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
    • Amyloid β induces ‘hypersynchronicity’, and so does p38.