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muscarine

[′məs·kə‚rēn]
(organic chemistry)
C8H19NO3 A quaternary ammonium compound, the toxic ingredient of certain mushrooms, as Amanita muscaria. Also known as hydroxycholine.
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In addition to glutamate, various other neurotransmitter systems were implicated in the neurotoxicology of mercury: muscarine and nicotine receptors (Bondy & Agrawal, 1980; Castoldi, Candura, Costa, Manzo, & Costa, 1996), nitric oxide (Kuo, Huang, & Lin-Shiau, 2002) serotoninergic (Hrdina, Peters, & Singhal, 1976), noradrenergic (Komulainen & Tuomisto, 1981; Gasso, Sunol, Sanfeliu, Rodriguez-Farre, & Cristofol, 2000) and dopaminergic (Bondy & Agrawal; Komulainen & Tuomisto; Scheuhammer & Cherian, 1985; Faro et al., 1997, 2002; Dare et al., 2003) systems.
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