Excitotoxins Proceedings of an International Symposium held at The Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, August 26–27, 1982
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1983, 1983
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1983 |
| Series: | Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series
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Table of Contents:
- Session I Excitotoxic Amino Acids: Localization, Chemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology and Biochemistry
- Identification of excitatory amino acid pathways in the mammalian nervous system
- Electrophysiological actions of kainate and other excitatory amino acids, and the structure of their receptors
- Two types of excitatory amino acid responses in the cat caudate nucleus
- Recent advances in the pharmacology of excitatory amino acids in the mammalian central nervous system
- Alteration by kainate of energy stores and neuronal-glial metabolism of glutamate in vitro
- Receptors for excitotoxins
- Overview Lecture
- Excitotoxins: An overview
- Session II Mechanisms of Excitotoxicity
- Neuronal degeneration after intracerebral injections of excitotoxins. A histological analysis of kainic acid, ibotenic acid and quinolinic acid lesions in the rat
- Kainic acid: Insight into its receptor-mediated neurotoxic mechanisms
- The neurodegenerative properties of intracerebral quinolinic acid and its structural analog cis-2,3- piperidine dicarboxylic acid
- Studies on excitatory amino acid receptors and their interactions and regulation of pre- and postsynaptic dopaminergic mechanism in the rat telencephalon
- Electrophysiological and pharmacological studies on kainic acid-induced neuronal activation
- An analysis of bioelectrical phenomena evoked by microiontophoretically applied excitotoxic amino-acids in the feline spinal cord
- The role of seizures in kainic acid induced brain damage
- Excitatory amino acid transmitters in cerebellum and optic tectum
- Mechanisms of excitotoxins examined in organotypic cultures of rat central nervous system
- Session III Excitotoxins as Tools in Neuroscience
- Ibotenate as a tool in neurobiology. Studies on dopaminergic and cholecystokinin immunoreactive neurons after ibotenate induced lesions
- Characterization of striatal ibotenate lesions and of 6-hydroxydopamine induced nigral lesions by morphometric and densitometric approaches
- Effects of ibotenate acid stereotactically injected into striatum or hippocampus on local blood flow and glucose utilization in rats
- Synaptic rearrangements in the kainic acid model of ammon’s horn sclerosis
- On the problem of distant lesions in behavioural studies utilizing kainic acid
- Kainic acid injections into the rat neostriatum: Effects on learning and exploration
- Effects of neurotoxic excitatory amino acids on neuroendocrine regulation
- Session IV Clinical Aspects
- Adverse reactions in humans thought to be related to ingestion of elevated levels of free monosodium glutamate (MSG) (Chinese Restaurant Syndrome and Other Reactions)
- Temporal lobe epilepsy, excitotoxins and the mechanism of selective neuronal loss
- Huntington’s disease: anti-neurotoxic therapeutic strategies
- Excitotoxicity in ageing and dementia