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Nijjar, M.S. 1993. Effects of domoate, glutamate and glucose deprivation on calcium uptake by rat brain tissue in vivo. Biochem. Pharmacol. 46: 131-138.

Nduaka, C.I., R.E. Taylor, S. Green, T. Flynn, V. Sathyamoorthy, R.L. Sprando, and J.N. Johannessen. 1999. Glutamate release from chick retina explants in response to domoic acid. In vitro & Molec. Toxicol. 12: 173-182. (PubMed)

Nduaka, C. 1998. Excitotoxic neurodegeneration induced by domoic acid in isolated chick embryo retina. Thesis, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, 104 p. Dissertation Abstracts International Part B: Science and Engineering, Sep. 1999, vol. 60, no. 3, p. 1039.

Nakajima, S. and J.L. Potvin. 1992. Neural and behavioral effects of domoic acid, an amnesic shellfish toxin, in the rat. Can. J. Psychol. 46: 569-581.

Nagatomo, I., M. Akasaki, M., and M. Takigawa. 1999. Kainic and domoic acids differentially affect NADPH-diaphorase neurons in the mouse hippocampal formation. Brain Res. Bull. 48: 277- 282.

Meldrum, B. and J. Garthwaite. 1990. Excitatory amino acid neurotoxicity and neurodegenerative disease. Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 11: 378-87.

McGeer, E.G., J.W. Olney, and P.L. McGeer [eds]. 1978. Kainic acid as a tool in neurobiology, Raven Press, New York. 271 pp.

Mayer, A.M., M. Hall, M.J. Fay, P. Lamar, C. Pearson, W.C. Prozialeck, V.K. Lehmann, P.B. Jacobson, A.M. Romanic, T. Uz, and H. Manev. 2001. Effect of a short-term in vitro exposure to the marine toxin domoic acid on viability, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, matrix metalloproteinase-9 and superoxide anion release by rat neonatal microglia. BMC Pharmacol. 1: 7. (a 13-page article) (PDF file outside DFO's website)

Mayer, A.M. 2000. The marine toxin domoic acid may affect the developing brain by activation of neonatal brain microglia and subsequent neurotoxic mediator generation. Med Hypotheses. 54: 837-841.

Malva, J.O., A.P. Carvalho, and C.M. Carvalho. 1996. Domoic acid induces the release of glutamate in the rat hippocampal CA3 sub-region. Neuroreport 7: 1330-1334.