Polyamine amides are neuroprotective in cerebellar granule cell cultures challenged with excitatory amino acids

Brain Research

Volumn 717, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 135-146

  Green, A C ^a   Nakanishi, K ^b   Usherwood, P N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellar granule cell; excitatory amino acid receptor; excitotoxicity; neuroprotection; polyamine amide toxin

Indexed keywords

ARGIOTOXIN 636; EXCITOTOXIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PHILANTHOTOXIN; POLYAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL CULTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULE CELL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029945947     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00042-X     Document Type: Article

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