A microdialysis study of glutamate concentration in the hippocampus of rats after TsTX toxin injection and blockade of toxin effects by glutamate receptor antagonists

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 455-463

  Nencioni, Ana Leonor A ^a,b   Lebrun, Ivo ^a   Dorce, Valquiria A C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Glutamate receptor antagonists; Hippocampus; Neurodegeneration; Scorpion toxins

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 PHOSPHONOPROPIONIC ACID; 2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ALPHA METHYL 4 CARBOXYPHENYLGLYCINE; DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SCORPION VENOM; TITYUS TOXIN; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INJECTION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCORPION VENOMS;

EID: 0037211981     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(02)01025-0     Document Type: Article

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