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- In excitotoxicity, nerve cells suffer damage or death when the levels of otherwise necessary and safe neurotransmitters such as glutamate become pathologically...
- implicated in a number of neurological conditions. Their central role in excitotoxicity and prevalence in the central nervous system has been linked or speculated...
- Overactivation of the receptor, causing excessive influx of Ca2+ can lead to excitotoxicity which is implied to be involved in some neurodegenerative disorders...
- activation of GluA2-containing AMPARs is proposed to guard against excitotoxicity. The subunit composition of the AMPAR is also important for the way...
- Histamine Receptors". "Excitotoxicity and Cell Damage". 2010. M. Aarts; M. Tymianski (2003-09-15). "Novel treatment of excitotoxicity: targeted disruption...
- kind of glutamate receptor in the brain. The chemical is linked to excitotoxicity (cell death). The seeds have been used for treating roundworm and pinworm...
- food additives such as aspartame and monosodium glutamate (MSG) are excitotoxic in normal doses. Blaylock completed his general surgical internship and...
- gene-editing, and human post-mortem spinal cord tissue examination. Excitotoxicity, or nerve cell death caused by high levels of intracellular calcium...
- kainate receptors. In experiments, it is used to counter glutamate excitotoxicity. NBQX was found to have anticonvulsant activity in rodent seizure models...
- stress and release of reactive oxygen species. Glutamine is known to be excitotoxic when present in large amounts, that can cause damage to numerous cellular...