Spider toxins affecting glutamate receptors: Polyamines in therapeutic neurochemistry

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 245-268

  Usherwood, Peter N R ^a   Blagbrough, Ian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POLYAMINE; SPERMINE; SPIDER VENOM; WASP VENOM;

DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMAL; BIOGENIC POLYAMINES; HUMAN; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 0026324202     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(91)90012-B     Document Type: Review

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