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Abstract
Drugs used for their actions on any aspect of excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter systems. Included are drugs that act on excitatory amino acid receptors, affect the life cycle of excitatory amino acid transmitters, or affect the survival of neurons using excitatory amino acids.
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- Agents, Excitatory Amino Acid
- Amino Acid Agents, Excitatory
- Amino Acids, Excitatory, Agents
- EAA Agents
- Agents, EAA
- Excitatory Amino Acid Effect
- Excitatory Amino Acid Effects
- Glutamate Agents
- Glutamatergic Agents
- Agents, Glutamate
- Agents, Glutamatergic
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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exogenous: do not confuse with EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS which are endogenous; general or unspecified; prefer specifics; note entry term EXCITATORY AMINO ACID EFFECT: use only for the excitatory amino acid effect of a chemical substance
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- National Library of Medicine. Excitatory Amino Acid Agents. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018683. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018683
- Excitatory Amino Acid Agents. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50430240