Questioning Glutamate Excitotoxicity in Acute Brain Damage: The Importance of Spreading Depolarization.

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"Source of Support Grants to RDA from the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation, National Science Engineering and Research Council and the New Frontiers in Research Fund, to E.F from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary, grant no. K134377; and the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 739593, and to JPD from the DFG (German research Council) (DFG DR323/5-1,DFG DR 323/10-1) BMBF Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (Era-Net Neuron EBio2, with funds from BMBF 01EW2004)."