Insulin Protects Cortical Neurons Against Glutamate Excitotoxicity
Glutamate excitotoxicity is implicated in the pathogenesis of numerous diseases, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer’s disease, for which insulin resistance is a concomitant condition, and intranasal insulin treatment is believed to be a promising therapy. Excitotoxicity is initiat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2019.01027/full |