Contribution of endogenous glycine site NMDA agonists to excitotoxic retinal damage in vivo

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 279-285

  Hama, Yasuhiro ^a   Katsuki, Hiroshi ^a   Tochikawa, Yoshinaga ^b   Suminaka, Chihiro ^a   Kume, Toshiaki ^a   Akaike, Akinori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fujimoto Pharmaceutical Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Excitotoxicity; Ganglion cell; Glutamate; Neuronal death; Retina

Indexed keywords

5,7 DICHLOROKYNURENIC ACID; AMINO ACID OXIDASE; DEXTRO SERINE; FLUOROGOLD; GLYCINE; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; SARCOSINE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME DEGRADATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INJURY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLYCINE; KYNURENIC ACID; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SERINE;

EID: 33749988039     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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