What does KAR stand for?

Kainate Receptor (neuroscience)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Kentucky's Affordable Prepaid Tuition plan Korean American Professional Tennis Association Kenya Airports Police Unit Kite Aerial Photography Worldwide Association (Berkeley, CA) Keep Alive Power Kansas Art Quilters Karen Ann Quinlan (Hospice) Korean Association of Quality Assurance for Clinical Laboratories Alpha-Keto Acid Reductase Aromatic Alpha-Keto Acid Reductase		Karnataka (India) Kentucky Administrative Regulations Key Account Representative Key Accounting Requirement (US DoD) Kinematic Ambiguity Resolution King's African Rifles Kirby Air Ride (game) Kansas Agribusiness Retailers Association Kansas Agricultural Research Association Karazhan (World of Warcraft gaming)

Samples in periodicals archive:

The electrical activity of the waking brain triggers the series of events controlled by the BDNF protein, which makes kainate receptor activity to disappear in some synapses.

Key mechanism in the development of nerve cells found

In particular, the invention provides a method of inducing a permanent change in the neurological development of a rodent, such as a rat, comprising daily administration of low doses of a kainate receptor agonist to the animal in the second postnatal week, wherein after treatment with the kainate receptor agonist the animal exhibits reproducible seizure-like symptoms when exposed to mild to moderate stressors.

University of Prince Edward Island obtains United States patent