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Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring > Pyrrolidines > Kainic Acid

Preferred term

Kainic Acid  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Acid, Digenic
  • Digenic Acid

Note

  • an antinematodal agent & excitatory amino acid agonist

Scope note

  • (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.

History note

  • 86(78); was see under PYRROLIDINES 1978-85

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007608

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