NMDA

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NMDA

  1. (biochemistry) Abbreviation of N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid, an amino acid derivative.
    • 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 5, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
      At a synaptic level, the axon terminal having to repeatedly release glutamate is the lecturer droning on repetitively; the moment when the postsynaptic threshold is passed and the NMDA receptors first activate is the dendritic spine finally getting it.

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