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glutamates

glutamates is the plural of glutamate.

Meaning of glutamate

Noun

glutamate (plural glutamates)

  1. Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
  2. The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter.
    • 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.2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 5, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN

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Questions about glutamates

What is glutamates the plural of?
Glutamates is the plural of glutamate.

Words near glutamates in the dictionary

  1. glutaldehyde
  2. glutamate
  3. glutamated
  4. glutamatergia
  5. glutamatergic
  6. glutamates
  7. glutamation
  8. glutamations
  9. glutamic
  10. glutamic acid
  11. glutamin

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