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Gaba vs Bicuculine - What's the difference?

gaba | bicuculine |

As nouns the difference between gaba and bicuculine

is that gaba is while bicuculine is (organic compound) a convulsant alkaloid, found in plants of the family fumariaceae , that is a a light-sensitive competitive antagonist of gaba receptors.

gaba

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Acronym

(Acronym) (head)
  • gamma-aminobutyric acid
  • * 2001': [Valium] was followed by many imitators, all sharing the same pharmacological mechanism, which is to enhance the actions of the key inhibitory brain chemical messenger '''GABA . — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 58)

    • Derived terms

    * GABAergic

    bicuculine

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    Noun

    (wikipedia bicuculine) (-)
  • (organic compound) A convulsant alkaloid, found in plants of the family Fumariaceae , that is a a light-sensitive competitive antagonist of GABA receptors