KAINIC ACID

  

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KAINIC ACID

Specialty Definition: KAINIC ACID

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Health

(2S-(2 alpha,3 beta,4 beta))-2-Carboxy-4-(1-methylethenyl)-3-pyrrolidineacetic acid. Ascaricide obtained from the red alga Digenea simplex. It is a potent excitatory amino acid agonist at some types of excitatory amino acid receptors and has been used to discriminate among receptor types. Like many excitatory amino acid agonists it can cause neurotoxicity and has been used experimentally for that purpose. (references)

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Crosswords: KAINIC ACID

Specialty definitions using "KAINIC ACID": Receptors, Kainic Acid. (references)

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Commercial Usage: KAINIC ACID

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Books

  • Kainic acid as a tool in neurobiology (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translation: KAINIC ACID

Language Translations for "KAINIC ACID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kaininsyre. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kaininezuur. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kainihappo. (various references)

   

French

  

acide kaïnique. (various references)

   

German

  

Kaininsäure. (various references)

   

Italian

  

acido kainico. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

海人酸 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かいに"さ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainickay aciday

   

Portuguese

  

ácido ka'nico. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ácido kaínico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kainsyra. (various references)

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Anagrams: KAINIC ACID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-i-k-n"

-3 letters: accidia, indicia.

-4 letters: acidic, acinic, cicada.

-5 letters: acini, canid, naiad, nicad.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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