Evidence disputing the link between seizure activity and high extracellular glutamate

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2446-2454

  Obrenovitch, Tihomir P ^a   Urenjak, Jutta ^b   Zilkha, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Extracellular fluid; Glutamate; L trans Pyrrolidine 2,4 dicarboxylate; Microdialysis; Seizures

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; PICROTOXIN; POTASSIUM ION; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

AMPEROMETRY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SEIZURE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029895780     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.66062446.x     Document Type: Article

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