Metabotropic glutamate receptor activation selectively limits excitotoxic damage in the intact neostriatum

Brain Research

Volumn 726, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 223-226

  Colwell, Christopher S ^a   Altemus, Katharine L ^a   Levine, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apomorphine; Excitotoxicity; Kainate; Metabotropic glutamate receptor; N Methyl D aspartate; Neostriatum; Quinolinic acid

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; APOMORPHINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KAINIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030575280     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00479-9     Document Type: Article

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