Fenamates protect neurons against ischemic and excitotoxic injury in chick embryo retina

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 163-166

  Chen, Quan ^a   Olney, John W ^a   Lukasiewicz, Peter D ^a   Almli, Todd ^a   Romano, Carmelo ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Fenamate; Glutamate receptor; Ischemia; Kainate; N Methyl D aspartate receptor; Retina

Indexed keywords

FENAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; RETINA ISCHEMIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHRANILIC ACIDS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHICK EMBRYO; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GLUCOSE; KAINIC ACID; MECLOFENAMIC ACID; MEFENAMIC ACID; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OXYGEN; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0032548765     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00081-0     Document Type: Article

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