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F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Wed Jul 28 23:14:17 EST 1999


Maybe I should put it more simply: it is really not relevant whether
10% or 100% of all the known and unknown neurotransmmitters are "in"
AoK, implicitly or explicitly; the point is, you do not have the most
basic UNDERSTANDING of them, and by your foolish rush to say something
you thought was relevant demonstrated that you do NOT know WHICH
excitatory amino acid is involved in NATURALLY OCCURING neurotoxic
reacttions due to seizure, stroke, or mechanical trauma.

By now, you should have had time to look it ups. (NOT in AoK, of
course; but if you think it's in there, by all means look again; if you
find it, tell us what it is.)

F. LeFever



In <utVGgqy1#GA.421 at cpmsnbbsa02> "Ken Collins" <KPaulC at email.msn.com>
writes: 
>
>i stand on what i posted...
>
>every neuro-active substance that exists, or which can be artificially
>synthesized, is thoroughly discussed in AoK.
>
>K. P. Collins
>
>F. Frank LeFever wrote in message
<7ngk0i$j3e at dfw-ixnews14.ix.netcom.com>...
>>
>>What a pathetic clutching at a pretense of knowing something:
>>"implicit", oh, yeah...
>>
>>You would have been better off if you had left it implicit, but
>>NO-o-o-o: you had to throw in a word you had read somewhere (as
usual,
>>without understnding the context at all).  At about the time you
>>stopped reading, kainic acid  was all the rage for EXPERIMENTALLY
>>INDUCED lesions, but surely you MUST know (QUICK, re-read AoK, it
MUST
>>be in there SOMEWHERE--maybe next to the missing fornix section?),
MUST
>>know that when people are talking about ENDOGENOUS OVERPRODUCTION due
>>to seizure or stroke or trauma. they are talking about SOME OTHER
>>excitatory amino acid; one which is very important in normal
>>functioningf; indeed, one which is the neurotransmitter in perhaps
90%
>>of the brain's synapses (well, don't flame me if I am off by 1 or 2
>>percentt).
>>
>>Enough hints?  I won't say whatt it is until you've had a chance to
>>look it up and post it and say "I knew that!"
>>
>>F. LeFever
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>In <uVk4xnk1#GA.252 at cpmsnbbsa05> "Ken Collins" <KPaulC at email.msn.com>
>>writes:
>>>
>>>'excitotoxins'... chemically-induced rampant TD E/I(up, up)... as in
>>'kainic
>>>acid'.
>>>
>>>it's all (implicit) in AoK, Frank.
>>>
>>>ken collins
>>>
>>>F. Frank LeFever wrote in message
>><7nd3lg$o5a at dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>...
>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>
>>>>Knowing personally someone who has played a very important role in
>>>>establishing the role of excitotoxins in hippocampal damage due to
>>>>seizure, and giving considerable attention to the role of
>>excitotoxins
>>>>(i.e. over-produced excitatory amino acid transmitters) in other
>>>>conditions (stroke, head trauma),
>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>




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