Taurine antagonizes calcium overload induced by glutamate or chemical hypoxia in cultured rat hippocampal neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-28

  Zhao, Peng ^a   Huang, Ya Lin ^a   Cheng, Jie Shi ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2,4 dinitrophenol; Confocal laser scanning microscope; Cultured neurons; Fluo 3; Glutamate; Intracellular calcium; Taurine

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; CALCIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOXIA; LASER MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL HYPOXIA; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAURINE; XANTHENES;

EID: 0033546078     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00373-0     Document Type: Article

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