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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 58, Issue 3, 5 August 1985, Pages 293-297
Neuroscience Letters

Glutamate neurotoxicity in cortical cell culture is calcium dependent

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Abstract

Brief exposure to glutamate produced widespread neuronal death in mature, but not young, cortical cell cultures. Extracellular sodium replacement or addition of tetrodotoxin produced only minor reduction in this toxic neuronal loss. However, removal of extracellular calcium markedly reduced neuronal loss, and elevation of extracellular calcium accentuated neuronal loss. These observations suggest that the toxicity of glutamate on cortical neurons may depend primarily on the presence of extracellular Ca, probably through a mechanism which is distinct from simple ‘excitotoxicity’.

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