Role of Glutamatergic System and its Level of Glutamate in Rat Migraine Model

Abstract

Glutamate is a major mediator of excitatory signals in the nervous system and is involved in many physiologic

and pathologic processes. The understanding of glutamatergic transmission in the nervous system has been

greatly expanded and the family of ionotropic and metatropic glutamate receptors. The glutamate receptors

are localized at nerve terminals postsynaptic sites and glial cells and thus, they can influence and modulate

the action of glutamate at different levels in the synapse. Moreover, there is substantial evidence of glial

participation in glutamate nociceptive processes and neuropathic pain. Present study explains the glutamate

transporters are responsible for the level of glutamate in the synaptic cleft is principally dependent on

neuronal glutamate transporters in rat model.