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<biochemistry, physiology> Major fast excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system.
See: glutamate receptor.
Also the excitatory neuromuscular transmitter in arthropod skeletal muscles.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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