Hiroaki Okuda et al.
Nihon shinkei seishin yakurigaku zasshi = Japanese journal of psychopharmacology, 22(5), 153-158 (2002-11-28)
Glutamate, the endogenous excitatory amino acid, is involved in the pathophysiology of the phenomenon of excitotoxic neuronal damages. Among glutamate receptors, NMDA receptors play a major role in these processes. In cultured cerebellar granule neurons, paradoxically, treatment with a subtoxic