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Differential Vulnerability to Excitatory Amino Acid-Induced Toxicity and Selective Neuronal Loss in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

John H. Weiss  and
Dennis W. Choi
John H. Weiss
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology H-3160, Stanford University Medical Centre, Stanford
Dennis W. Choi*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology H-3160, Stanford University Medical Centre, Stanford
*
Department of Neurology H-3160, Stanford University Medical Centre, Stanford, California, U.S.A. 94305
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Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by selective degeneration of certain biochemically distinct subpopulations of central neurons. Studies of the intrinsic vulnerability of such neurons to injury by excitatory amino acids in vitro, as well as study of neurologic syndromes produced in animals or humans by ingestion of environmental excitatory amino acid neurotoxins may suggest a link between excitotoxicity, and the pathogenesis of certain neurodegenerative diseases.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue S3 , August 1991 , pp. 394 - 397
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1991

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