"Quisqualic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An agonist at two subsets of excitatory amino acid receptors, ionotropic receptors that directly control membrane channels and metabotropic receptors that indirectly mediate calcium mobilization from intracellular stores. The compound is obtained from the seeds and fruit of Quisqualis chinensis.
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D016318
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.462.580.600 D12.125.755
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quisqualic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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Del Valle-Mojica LM, Ort?z JG. Anxiolytic properties of Valeriana officinalis in the zebrafish: a possible role for metabotropic glutamate receptors. Planta Med. 2012 Nov; 78(16):1719-24.
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Mano I, Teichberg VI. A tetrameric subunit stoichiometry for a glutamate receptor-channel complex. Neuroreport. 1998 Jan 26; 9(2):327-31.
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Mano I, Lamed Y, Teichberg VI. A venus flytrap mechanism for activation and desensitization of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid receptors. J Biol Chem. 1996 Jun 28; 271(26):15299-302.