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This chapter will consider recent pharmacologic, electrophysiologic, and biochemical studies examining the role of a subtype of excitatory amino receptor, the NMDA receptor, in the development of kindling and expression of kindled seizures.
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McNamara, J.O., Bonhaus, D.W., Nadler, J.V., Yeh, GC. (1990). N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors and the Kindling Model. In: Wada, J.A. (eds) Kindling 4. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 37. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5796-4_15
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