Administration of glutamate into the spinal cord at extracellular concentrations reached post-injury causes functional impairments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 384, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 271-276

  Xu, Guo Ying ^a   Hughes, Michael G ^a   Zhang, Liping ^a   Cain, Lisa ^a   McAdoo, David J ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity box; Excitotoxicity; Functional impairment; Glutamate; Microdialysis; Oligodendrocyte; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 20644456263     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.100     Document Type: Article

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