“…Preparation of hippocampal slices and recording of synaptic transmission has been well-documented [Kass and Lipton, 1982;Dong et al, 1988;Schurr et al, 1995], as has the insult of hypoxia, anoxia, hypoglycemia, or a combination of these factors on hippocampal slices [Kass and Lipton, 1982;Aitken and Schiff, 1986;Balestrino and Somjen, 1986;Dong et al, 1988;Fowler and Li, 1998;Schurr et al, 1995;Opitz et al, 1995]. Various drugs have been effective at reducing the damage to slices caused by these insults, including MK-801 [Schurr et al, 1995], pentobarbital [Aitken and Schiff, 1986], chlorpromazine [Balestrino and Somjen, 1986], t-ADA [Opitz, et al, 1995], sodium channel blockers [Fowler and Li, 1988;Fried et al, 1995], and several metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists [Opitz, et al, 1995]. On the basis of the evidence of the effectiveness of glycine antagonists as a neuroprotective agent in in vivo animal models of ischemia [Warner et al, 1995;Bordi et al, 1997;Fabio et al, 1998], we tested several strychnine-insensitive glycine-modulatory site antagonists for their ability to protect rat hippocampal slices in an in vitro electrophysiologic model of ischemia.…”