Beyond the role of glutamate as a neurotransmitter

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 748-755

  Nedergaard, Maiken ^a   Takano, Takahiro ^a   Hansen, Anker J ^b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSOL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOSOL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036718797     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn916     Document Type: Article

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