11869 IUPAC Gold Book - N-methyl-D-aspartate 10.1351/goldbook.11869 11869 current initialism: NMDA 1 Excitotoxic non-essential amino acid used experimentally to identify a specific subset of glutamatereceptors. Excitotoxic https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11766 glutamate https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11792 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 880 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11869/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11869/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11869/plain Citation: 'N-methyl-D-aspartate' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11869 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-15T00:33:15+00:00