NMDA
English
Noun
NMDA
- (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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