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Tracking Drug-induced Changes in Receptor Post-internalization Trafficking by Colocalizational Analysis
Published on: July 3, 2015
Stochastic model of protein receptor trafficking prior to synaptogenesis
1Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
Abstract:
We present a stochastic model of NMDA ( N-methyl d-aspartate) receptor transport along a dendrite prior to synapse formation. Receptors undergo periods of intracellular kinesin motor-driven transport along microtubules interspersed with periods of cycling to the cell surface through exocytosis or endocytsosis. The stochastic dynamics is reduced to a spatially discrete hopping model that determines the time-dependent distribution of receptors along the dendrite. We also investigate how possible defects in motor-assisted transport can affect this distribution.
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