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plural glutamates
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid. examples
(neuroscience) The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter. quotations examples
At a synaptic level, the axon terminal having to repeatedly release glutamate is the lecturer droning on repetitively; the moment when the postsynaptic threshold is passed and the NMDA receptors first activate is the dendritic spine finally getting it.
2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 5, in Behave, Penguin