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Aluminum toxicity in rat hippocampal neurons
1Department of Neurology, Saint Louis University Health Science Center, MO 63110-0250.
Neuroscience Letters
|September 12, 1994
Abstract:
A brief exposure of dissociated hippocampal culture to aluminum (AlCl3, 60 min) is toxic to neurons. The aluminum toxicity is independent of calcium or glutamate receptor activation. However, at a high concentration (1 mM), aluminum seems to have a protective effect.