"Kainic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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(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.
| Descriptor ID |
D007608
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.773.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Kainic Acid- Kainic Acid
- Acid, Kainic
- Digenic Acid
- Acid, Digenic
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Spontaneous synchronous synaptic calcium transients in cultured cortical neurons. J Neurosci. 1992 Dec; 12(12):4834-45.
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The effect of bilateral kainic acid-induced lateral habenula lesions on dopamine-mediated behaviors. Brain Res. 1987 Apr 14; 409(1):193-6.