glutamate

See also: Glutamate

English

Etymology

From glutamic acid +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡluː.tə.meɪt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.tə.meɪt/, [ˈɡlu.ɾə.meɪt]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlʉː.tə.mæɪt/, [ˈɡlʉː.ɾə.mæɪt]

• Audio (US):

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Noun

glutamate (plural glutamates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• glutamatergic
• monammonium glutamate
• monopotassium glutamate
• monosodium glutamate
• monosodium glutamate symptom complex
• sodium glutamate

 

Translations

salt or ester of glutamic acid

• Catalan: glutamat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 谷氨酸盐 (zh) (gǔ'ānsuānyán)

• Czech: glutamát m
• Finnish: glutamaatti (fi)
• French: glutamate (fr) m
• German: Glutamat n
• Italian: glutamato (it), glutammato (it)
• Polish: glutaminian (pl) m
• Portuguese: glutamato
• Spanish: glutamato
• Swedish: glutamat (sv)
• Turkish: glutamat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡly.ta.mat/

• Audio:

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Noun

glutamate m (plural glutamates)

1. glutamate

Further reading

• “glutamate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.