The effects of ruthenium red, dantrolene and nimodipine, alone or in combination, in NMDA induced neurotoxicity of cerebellar granular cell culture of rats

The present study revealed a neurotoxic feature of ruthenium red, however we also demonstrated a neuroprotective role for it in NMDA-mediated neuron culture. This could be interpreted as a result of the partial agonistic effect of ruthenium red.