Glutamate as a cause of Neurodegenerative Diseases?

The pathway has been revealed…

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9 min readJul 24, 2021

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By Benjamin Musrie, Medical Researcher. Sydney, Australia.

Synapse showing neurotransmission
Image by Jenny Liu with permission

The human brain is composed of approximately 86 billion neurons (Azevedo et al., 2009). These neurons communicate with one another via endogenous chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters to transmit messages to target cells such as…

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