glutamate
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See also: Glutamate
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glutamate (plural glutamates)
- (chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
- (neuroscience) The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter.
- 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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salt or ester of glutamic acid
French[edit]
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glutamate m (plural glutamates)
Further reading[edit]
- “glutamate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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