Melatonin protects primary cultures of cerebellar granule neurons from kainate but not from N-methyl-d-aspartate excitotoxicity

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 39-46

  Giusti, Pietro ^a   Gusella, Milena ^a   Lipartiti, Maria ^a   Milani, Daria ^a   Zhu, Weijian ^b   Vicini, Stefano ^b   Manev, Hari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; EXCITOTOXIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; MELATONIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL CULTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GRANULAR NERVE CELL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; MELATONIN; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS;

EID: 0028955117     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-4886(95)90005-5     Document Type: Article

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