The modulatory effect of spermine on the glutamate-NMDA receptor is regionally variable in normal human adult cerebral cortex

Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 135-142

  Mortensen, Martin ^a   Matsumoto, Izuru ^b   Niwa, Shin ichi ^b   Dodd, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SPERMINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN REGION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033034192     PISSN: 09019928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.1999.tb00889.x     Document Type: Article

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