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“Excitotoxins” represent a very special group of neurotoxic substances, in that they act upon specific somatic and dendritic receptors such that if the excitation produced is of sufficient magnitude, the neurones die.
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Roberts, P.J., Foster, G.A. (1983). Receptors for Excitotoxins. In: Fuxe, K., Roberts, P., Schwarcz, R. (eds) Excitotoxins. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06963-7_6
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