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  • adjective biochemistry, neurology Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.

Etymologies

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glutamate + -ergic

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Examples

  • They found that even in the forebrain, there are other nerve cells that are regularly generated - the so-called glutamatergic nerve cells, which use glutamate as neurotransmitter.

    unknown title 2009

  • Their findings: Even in the forebrain, there are other nerve cells that are regularly generated the so called glutamatergic nerve cells, which use glutamate as neurotransmitter.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • They found that even in the forebrain, there are other nerve cells that are regularly generated - the so-called glutamatergic nerve cells, which use glutamate as neurotransmitter.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • Their findings: Even in the forebrain, there are other nerve cells that are regularly generated the so called glutamatergic nerve cells, which use glutamate as neurotransmitter.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • This system is known as the glutamatergic system and it is crucial to long-term memory and a number of other memory functions.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2008

  • This system is known as the glutamatergic system and it is crucial to long-term memory and a number of other memory functions.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2008

  • This study provides support for a hypothesis about schizophrenia that implicates what are known as "glutamatergic" neurons.

    unknown title 2009

  • Interactions between glutamatergic and mono-aminergic systems within the basal ganglia - implications for schizophrenia and

    Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography 2001

  • As compared with untreated animals, rats treated for a month with phenytoin had 508 differentially expressed genes in the hippocampus and 62 in the frontal cortex, including genes involved in GABAergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission, neuroprotection and other genes thought to be crucial for mood regulation.

    Medindia Health News 2010

  • Sontheimer H (2003) Modulation of glutamatergic transmission by bergmann glial cells in rat cerebellum in situ.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

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