Striatal glutamate induces retrograde excitotoxicity and neuronal degeneration of intralaminar thalamic nuclei: Their potential relevance for Parkinson's disease

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2172-2182

  Morales, Ingrid ^a,b   Sabate, Magdalena ^a   Rodriguez, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

glutamate; intralaminar thalamic nuclei; Parkinson's disease; retrograde excitotoxicity; striatum; substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENERVATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EXCITOTOXICITY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

GLUTAMATE; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; RETROGRADE EXCITOTOXICITY; STRIATUM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; LEVODOPA; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84879845120     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12205     Document Type: Article

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