Brevetoxins cause acute excitotoxicity in primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule neurons

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 439-444

  Berman, Frederick W ^a   Murray, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; BREVETOXIN; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DEXTRORPHAN; DIZOCILPINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; POLYETHER; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CEREBELLUM; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; GRANULE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MARINE TOXINS; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; OXOCINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0033006422     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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