CNS Neuroprotection (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology)
Contributors: Frank W. Marcoux (Editor); Dennis W. Choi (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9783540424123
Subjects: Medical genetics; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Pharmacology; Neuroscience; Medical; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology; Diseases Of Central Nervous System; Neuropsychopharmacology; Medical / Nursing; Neurology - General; Life Sciences - General; Gentherapie; Medical / Pharmacology; Neurodegenerative Disease; Neuropharmakologie; Neuroprotection; Neurotoxität; Chemoprevention; Central nervous system; Degeneration; Molecular aspects
First sentence: The major excitatory transmitter in the mammalian central nervous system is glutamate, which exerts its signaling actions through the stimulation of ionotropic and metabotropic receptors (WATKINS et al. 1981; MAYER and WESTBROOK 1987; NAKANISHI and MASU 1994).