GLUTAMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glutamate mean? 

• GLUTAMATE (noun)
  The noun GLUTAMATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt or ester of glutamic acid

  Familiarity information: GLUTAMATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUTAMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester of glutamic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("glutamate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

 Context examples 

Proline is first converted to a Schiff base and then converted by hydrolysis to glutamate-5-semialdehyde.

(Arginine, Histidine, Glutamate, Glutamine, and Proline Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Scientists thought that Shisa7 played a role in controlling a completely different type of synapse that relies on the neurotransmitter glutamate to excite, rather than quiet, neurons.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)

Also called serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase and SGPT.

(Alanine transferase, NCI Dictionary)

A process that involves the binding of any member of the group of amino acid neurotransmitters, including glutamate, aspartate, serine, glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid, to their respective receptors.

(Amino Acid Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Reactive oxygen species (ROS), produced within mitochondria, inhibit the function of EAAT2, the main glial glutamate transporter protein, responsible for most of the reuptake of synaptically released glutamate.

(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

In addition to ACh, BTX-A may inhibit the release of neuropeptides, such as substance P and glutamate, which may contribute to its analgesic activity.

(botulinum toxin type A, NCI Thesaurus)

Folate naturally in foods containing two or more glutamate molecules.

(Naturally Occurring Folate, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

This allele, which encodes plasma glutamate carboxypeptidase protein, is involved in protein and peptide hydrolysis.

(PGCP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Plasma glutamate carboxypeptidase (472 aa, ~52 kDa) is encoded by the human PGCP gene.

(Plasma Glutamate Carboxypeptidase, NCI Thesaurus)

Furthermore, duloxetine does not show significant affinity for dopaminergic, adrenergic, cholinergic, histaminergic, opioid, glutamate, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors.

(Duloxetine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)