"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.
| Descriptor ID |
D016318
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.462.580.600 D12.125.755
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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