"Kainic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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(2S-(2 alpha,3 beta,4 beta))-2-Carboxy-4-(1-methylethenyl)-3-pyrrolidineacetic acid. Ascaricide obtained from the red alga Digenea simplex. It is a potent excitatory amino acid agonist at some types of excitatory amino acid receptors and has been used to discriminate among receptor types. Like many excitatory amino acid agonists it can cause neurotoxicity and has been used experimentally for that purpose.
| Descriptor ID |
D007608
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.773.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Kainic Acid- Kainic Acid
- Acid, Kainic
- Digenic Acid
- Acid, Digenic
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Kainic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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John CS, Smith KL, Van't Veer A, Gompf HS, Carlezon WA, Cohen BM, Öngür D, Bechtholt-Gompf AJ. Blockade of astrocytic glutamate uptake in the prefrontal cortex induces anhedonia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2012 Oct; 37(11):2467-75.
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Somera-Molina KC, Robin B, Somera CA, Anderson C, Stine C, Koh S, Behanna HA, Van Eldik LJ, Watterson DM, Wainwright MS. Glial activation links early-life seizures and long-term neurologic dysfunction: evidence using a small molecule inhibitor of proinflammatory cytokine upregulation. Epilepsia. 2007 Sep; 48(9):1785-1800.
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Koh S, Magid R, Chung H, Stine CD, Wilson DN. Depressive behavior and selective down-regulation of serotonin receptor expression after early-life seizures: reversal by environmental enrichment. Epilepsy Behav. 2007 Feb; 10(1):26-31.
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Leski ML, Hassinger LC, Valentine SL, Baer JD, Coyle JT. L-type calcium channels reduce ROS generation in cerebellar granule cells following kainate exposure. Synapse. 2002 Jan; 43(1):30-41.
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Tian D, Litvak V, Lev S. Cerebral ischemia and seizures induce tyrosine phosphorylation of PYK2 in neurons and microglial cells. J Neurosci. 2000 Sep 01; 20(17):6478-87.
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Weiss S, Cataltepe O, Cole AJ. Anatomical studies of DNA fragmentation in rat brain after systemic kainate administration. Neuroscience. 1996 Sep; 74(2):541-51.
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Kim YS, Thomas JW, Tillakaratne NJ, Montpied P, Suzdak PD, Banner C, Ginns E, Tobin AJ, Paul SM. Glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA in rat brain: regional distribution and effects of intrastriatal kainic acid. Brain Res. 1987 Dec; 427(1):77-82.