NMDA

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• d-man, Mand, NDMA, nam'd, mand, damn, MDNA, mDNA