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Descriptor English: Quisqualic Acid
Descriptor Spanish: Ácido Quiscuálico
Descriptor ácido quiscuálico
Scope note: Agonista de dos subgrupos de receptores de aminoácidos excitatorios, de receptores iontrópicos que controlan directamente los canales de membrana y receptores metabotrópicos que median indirectamente la movilización del calcio de los depósitos intracelulares. Este compuesto se obtiene de las semillas y frutos del Quisqualis chinensis.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ácido Quisquálico
Descriptor French: Acide quisqualique
Entry term(s): Quisqualate
Tree number(s): D03.383.129.462.580.600
D12.125.755
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016318
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Pharm Action: Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists
Registry Number: 8OC22C1B99
CAS Type 1 Name: 1,2,4-Oxadiazolidine-2-propanoic acid, alpha-amino-3,5-dioxo-, (S)-
Previous Indexing: Convulsants (1975-1990)
Neuromuscular Depolarizing Agents (1970-1990)
Oxadiazoles (1966-1990)
Public MeSH Note: 91
History Note: 91
DeCS ID: 29095
Unique ID: D016318
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1990/05/29
Revision Date: 2016/05/31
Quisqualic Acid - Preferred
Concept UI M0024938
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Quisqualic Acid
Quisqualate - Narrower
Concept UI M0024937
Preferred term Quisqualate



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