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kainic acid

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kainic acid
Neurophysiology An excitatory neurotoxin, which stimulates glutamate receptors. See Kainate receptors.


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Acute and protracted neurologic effects were more pronounced in elderly subjects, which led to studies in young, middle-aged, and aged rats with kainic acid (Wozniak et al.
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In this and other rat experiments, the striatum was substantially damaged--and Huntington's was simulated--by injections with kainic acid.
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Another group received EUK-134 without kainic acid pretreatment.
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