Free radicals and neuronal cell death.

VL Dawson, TM Dawson - Cell death and differentiation, 1996 - europepmc.org
Production of oxygen free radicals is a natural consequence of aerobic metabolism and they
are constantly generated in vivo by chemical reactions and metabolic processes. Antioxidant …

Carnosine protects against excitotoxic cell death independently of effects on reactive oxygen species

A Boldyrev, R Song, D Lawrence, DO Carpenter - Neuroscience, 1999 - Elsevier
The role of carnosine, N-acetylcarnosine and homocarnosine as scavengers of reactive
oxygen species and protectors against neuronal cell death secondary to excitotoxic …

Cell death in primary cultures of mouse neurons and astrocytes during exposure to and 'recovery'from hypoxia, substrate deprivation and simulated ischemia

E Sochocka, BHJ Juurlink, WE Code, V Hertz, L Peng… - Brain research, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of hypoxia, substrate deprivationand simulated ischemia (combined hypoxia
and substrate deprivation) on cell survival during the insult itself and during a 24 h …

Depolarization or glutamate receptor activation blocks apoptotic cell death of cultured cerebellar granule neurons

GM Yan, B Ni, M Weller, KA Wood, SM Paul - Brain research, 1994 - Elsevier
Cerebellar granule neurons can be readily maintained in culture if depolarized with high
concentrations of K+ or subtoxic concentrations of various excitatory amino acids. We now …

■ REVIEW: Excitotoxicity, Free Radicals, Necrosis, and Apoptosis

SA Lipton, P Nicotera - The Neuroscientist, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies have shown that excitotoxicity can result in either neuronal necrosis (passive
cell lysis associated with energy failure) or apoptosis (active cell death requiring energy …

Role of NADPH oxidase in the apoptotic death of cultured cerebellar granule neurons

A Coyoy, A Valencia, A Guemez-Gamboa… - Free Radical Biology and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Cerebellar granule neurons (CGN) cultured in a medium containing 25 mM KCl and treated
with staurosporine (ST) or transferred to a medium with 5 mM KCl (K5) die apoptotically …

Cellular and molecular events of ischemic brain damage.

C Cafe, C Torri, F Marzatico - Functional neurology, 1993 - europepmc.org
Many events occurring during and after cerebral ischemia are well known, but they are not
known enough to fully elucidate the mechanisms of brain damage. Energy failure alone …

Dissociation of nitric oxide generation and kainate-mediated neuronal degeneration in primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule cells

PS Puttfarcken, WE Lyons, JT Coyle - Neuropharmacology, 1992 - Elsevier
In the presence of physiological concentrations of Mg 2+ and in glycine-free buffer, the
relationship between KA-mediated generation of NO and neurotoxicity in cultures of …

Cell culture studies of the role of elevated extracellular glutamate and K+ in neuronal cell death during and after anoxia/ischemia

R HUANG, E SOCHOCKA, L HERTZ - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 1997 - Elsevier
HUANG, R., E. SOCHOCHKA AND L. HERTZ. Cell culture studies of the role of elevated
extracellular glutamate and K+ in neuronal cell death during and after anoxia/ischemia …

Evaluation of free radical production, mitochondrial membrane potential and cytoplasmic calcium in mammalian neurons by flow cytometry

FX Sureda, C Gabriel, J Comas, M Pallàs… - Brain Research …, 1999 - Elsevier
The overexcitation of glutamate receptors is believed to be the cause of several
neurodegenerative disorders. The determination of calcium fluxes, mitochondrial membrane …