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Endothelin-1 Enhances Glutamate-Induced Retinal Cell Death, Possibly through ET<sub>A</sub>Receptors

DOI

30

Citations

39

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2005

Year

Takatoshi Kobayashi, Hidehiro Oku, Masayuki Fukuhara, Shota Kojima, Asako Komori, Masaki Ichikawa, Kozo Katsumura, Masato Kobayashi, Tetsuya Sugiyama, Tsunehiko Ikeda
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Abstract

These results indicate that ET-1 enhances glutamate-induced retinal cell death, possibly through ET(A) receptors. ET-1 may act synergistically with glutamate to damage retinal neurons under hypoxic conditions.

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