Ebook Acute neuronal injury: The role of excitotoxic programmed cell death mechanisms

Ebook "Acute neuronal injury: The role of excitotoxic programmed cell death mechanisms" is the result of a convergence of scientific information regarding mechanisms that produce acute nerve cell death in the brain. Although seemingly disparate, stroke, brain and spinal cord trauma, coma from a low serum glucose concentration (hypoglycemia), and prolonged epileptic seizures have in common the inciting factor of excitotoxicity, the activation of a specific subtype of glutamate receptor by an elevated extracellular glutamate concentration that results in an excessive influx of calcium into nerve cells.