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Elek Molnar is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and engineering. The subfields that characterize their research include cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, cell biology, and materials chemistry.

Their research topics encompass various areas related to neuroscience and neuropharmacology, including ion channel regulation and function, ultrasound and hyperthermia applications, photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, receptor mechanisms and signaling, ultrasound and cavitation phenomena, as well as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Molnar has published research in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Brain stimulation
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Cerebral Cortex

Recent publications by Elek Molnar cover a range of neuroscience topics, including receptor mechanisms and neurological diseases:

  • Age-Dependent Shift of AMPA Receptors From Synapses to Intracellular Compartments in Alzheimer's Disease: Immunocytochemical Analysis of the CA1 Hippocampal Region in APP/PS1 Transgenic Mouse Model, 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Ultrasound modulates neuronal potassium currents via ionotropic glutamate receptors, 2023, Brain Stimulation
  • Synthesis and pharmacological characterisation of arctigenin analogues as antagonists of AMPA and kainate receptors, 2021, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Kainate receptors in brain function and disorders, 2022, Neuropharmacology
  • Layer-specific distribution and expression pattern of AMPA- and NMDA-type glutamate receptors in the barrel field of the adult rat somatosensory cortex: a quantitative electron microscopic analysis, 2022, Cerebral Cortex

Elek Molnar has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include Benjamin Clennell, Tom G. J. Steward, Kate J. Heesom, Bruce W. Drinkwater, and Daniel J. Whitcomb, each co-authoring two publications alongside Molnar.

Best Publications

  • Cell Type and Pathway Dependence of Synaptic AMPA Receptor Number and Variability in the Hippocampus

    Zoltan Nusser;Rafael Lujan;Gregor Laube;J.David B Roberts

  • Differential Roles of NR2A and NR2B-Containing NMDA Receptors in Cortical Long-Term Potentiation and Long-Term Depression

    Peter V. Massey;Benjamin E. Johnson;Peter R. Moult;Yves P. Auberson

  • NSF Binding to GluR2 Regulates Synaptic Transmission

    Atsushi Nishimune;John T.R Isaac;Elek Molnar;Jacques Noel

  • Surface Expression of AMPA Receptors in Hippocampal Neurons Is Regulated by an NSF-Dependent Mechanism

    Jacques Noel;G.Scott Ralph;Lisa Pickard;Jackie Williams

  • High-resolution immunogold localization of AMPA type glutamate receptor subunits at synaptic and non-synaptic sites in rat hippocampus.

    A. Baude;Z. Nusser;E. Molnar;R.A.J. McIlhinney

  • Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Mediated Long-Term Depression: Molecular Mechanisms

    Clare M. Gladding;Stephen M. Fitzjohn;Elek Molnár

  • The NMDA receptor as a target for cognitive enhancement.

    Graham L. Collingridge;Arturas Volianskis;Neil Bannister

  • Biochemical and immunocytochemical characterization of antipeptide antibodies to a cloned GluR1 glutamate receptor subunit: Cellular and subcellular distribution in the rat forebrain

    E. Molnár;A. Baude;S.A. Richmond;P.B. Patel

  • Developmental Changes in Synaptic AMPA and NMDA Receptor Distribution and AMPA Receptor Subunit Composition in Living Hippocampal Neurons

    Lisa Pickard;Jacques Noël;Jeremy M. Henley;Graham L. Collingridge

  • Tyrosine Phosphatases Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking during Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Mediated Long-Term Depression

    Peter R. Moult;Clare M. Gladding;Thomas M. Sanderson;Stephen M. Fitzjohn

  • Number and density of AMPA receptors in individual synapses in the rat cerebellum as revealed by SDS-digested freeze-fracture replica labeling

    Miwako Masugi-Tokita;Etsuko Tarusawa;Masahiko Watanabe;Elek Molnár

  • α4 but Not α3 and α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunits Are Lost from the Temporal Cortex in Alzheimer's Disease

    C. M. Martin‐Ruiz;J. A. Court;E. Molnar;M. Lee

  • Assembly intracellular targeting and cell surface expression of the human N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits NR1a and NR2A in transfected cells.

    R.A.Jeffrey McIlhinney;Beatrice Le Bourdellès;Elek Molnár;Nicolas Tricaud

  • The Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP Mediates AMPA Receptor Endocytosis after Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Stimulation

    Y. Zhang;D. V. Venkitaramani;C. M. Gladding;P. Kurup

  • Number and Density of AMPA Receptors in Single Synapses in Immature Cerebellum

    Jun-ichi Tanaka;Masanori Matsuzaki;Etsuko Tarusawa;Akiko Momiyama

  • Metabotropic glutamate and GABAB receptors contribute to the modulation of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in pancreatic beta cells

    N. L. Brice;A. Varadi;S. J. H. Ashcroft;E. Molnar

  • Concomitant deficits in working memory and fear extinction are functionally dissociated from reduced anxiety in metabotropic glutamate receptor 7-deficient mice.

    Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh;Tom Beckers;Simon M. Ball;Frank Baeyens

  • Synaptic and nonsynaptic localization of the GluR1 subunit of the AMPA-type excitatory amino acid receptor in the rat cerebellum.

    A. Baude;E. Molnar;D. Latawiec;R. A. J. Mcilhinney

  • Transient synaptic activation of NMDA receptors leads to the insertion of native AMPA receptors at hippocampal neuronal plasma membranes.

    Lisa Pickard;Jacques Noël;Joshua K Duckworth;Stephen M Fitzjohn

  • Identification of functional ionotropic glutamate receptor proteins in pancreatic beta-cells and in islets of Langerhans.

    E. Molnar;A. Varadi;R. A. J. Mcilhinney;S. J. H. Ashcroft

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham L. Collingridge
Graham L. Collingridge Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Jeremy M. Henley
Jeremy M. Henley University of Bristol
Ryuichi Shigemoto
Ryuichi Shigemoto Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Yugo Fukazawa
Yugo Fukazawa University of Fukui
Peter Somogyi
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford
Zafar I. Bashir
Zafar I. Bashir University of Bristol
James B. Uney
James B. Uney University of Bristol
Rafael Luján
Rafael Luján University of Castilla-La Mancha
Zoltan Nusser
Zoltan Nusser Hungarian Academy of Sciences
John T.R. Isaac
John T.R. Isaac Johnson & Johnson (United States)

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