Shakespeare in love - With NMDA receptors?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 270-271

  Lipton, Stuart A ^a   Nakanishi, Nobuki ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PHENCYCLIDINE;

APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0033016341     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6481     Document Type: Short Survey

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