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  • Title: Direct evidence that excitotoxicity in cultured neurons is mediated via N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) as well as non-NMDA receptors.
    Author: Frandsen A, Drejer J, Schousboe A.
    Journal: J Neurochem; 1989 Jul; 53(1):297-9. PubMed ID: 2566655.
    Abstract:
    Cultured GABAergic cerebral cortex neurons were exposed to the excitatory amino acid (EAA) L-glutamate, kainate (KA), N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), or RS-alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolopropionate (AMPA). To ensure a constant glutamate concentration in the culture media during the exposure periods, the glutamate uptake inhibitor L-aspartic acid beta-hydroxamate was added at 500 microM to the cultures that were exposed to glutamate. Each of these EAAs was able to induce neurotoxicity. It was not possible to reduce or prevent glutamate-induced cytotoxicity by blocking only one of the glutamate receptor subtypes with either the NMDA receptor antagonist D-(-)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate (APV) or with one of the specific non-NMDA antagonists 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) and 6,7-dinitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (DNQX). However, if the cultures were exposed simultaneously to glutamate and the antagonists in combination, i.e., APV plus CNQX or APV plus DNQX, the toxicity was completely prevented. Furthermore, CNQX and DNQX were shown to be selective blockers of cytotoxic phenomena induced by non-NMDA glutamate agonists with no effect on NMDA-induced cell death. Likewise, APV prevented NMDA-induced cell death without affecting the KA- or AMPA-induced neurotoxicity. It is concluded that EAA-dependent neurotoxicity is induced by NMDA as well as non-NMDA receptors.
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