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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2010 Nov 19;115(6):1608–1620. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07066.x

Table I.

Comparisons of extracellular levels of resting glutamate measured by microdialysis methods in numerous labs to our MEA measurements in awake rats.

Microdialysis Glutamate (μM) MEA Glutamate (μM)
Striatum 0.18-1.3 7.2 ± 1.2
(Battaglia et al., 1997; Biggs et al., 1997; Segovia et al., 2001) (Rutherford et al., 2007)
Hippocampus 0.275-2.12 4.7-10.4
(Ueda and Tsuru, 1995; Giovannini et al., 2001; Clinckers et al., 2005; Segovia et al., 2006; Ballini et al., 2008) (unpublished data)
Prefrontal Cortex 0.22-33 9-45.5
(Moghaddam 1993; Timmerman et al., 1999; Calcagno et al., 2006; Hernandez et al., 2008; Ballini et al., 2008; Lupinsky et al., 2010) (Rutherford et al., 2007; current study)