Domoic acid
Chemical Name: (2S,3S,4R,5'R)-2-Carboxy-4-(5'-carboxy-1'-methyl-1Z,3E-hexadienyl)-3-pyrrolidineacetic acid
Purity: ≥95%
Biological Activity
Domoic acid is a kainate receptor agonist. More potent and possibly more selective than kainate at kainate receptors, as demonstrated in electrophysiological studies.Technical Data
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Background References
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The activation of glutamate receptors by kainic acid and domoic acid.
Hampson and Manalo
Nat.Toxins, 1998;6:153 -
The primary afferent depolarizing action of kainate in the rat.
Agrawal and Evans
Br.J.Pharmacol., 1986;87:345 -
Domoic acid, the alleged 'mussel toxin', might produce its neurotoxic effect through kainate receptor activation: an electro-physiological study in rat dorsal hippocampus.
Debonnel et al.
Can.J.Physiol.Pharmacol., 1989;67:29 -
Experiments with kainate and quisqualate agonists and antagonists in relation to the sub-classification of 'non-NMDA' receptors.
Watkins et al.
Excitatory Amino Acids and Synaptic Plasticity. Ed, 1990;:49
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Activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors potentiates heteromeric kainate receptors.
Authors: Rojas Et al.
Mol Pharmacol 2013;83:106
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