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  • noun Plural form of glutamate.

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Examples

  • Scientists have known for some time that a group of enzymes can indirectly affect what goes on inside cilia by adding unusually branched chains of amino acids, known as glutamates, onto certain spots of the tubulin proteins that make up the microtubules.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Happy Meals craveability Meanwhile, glutamates turn out to be deeply implicated in the subjective characteristic that the food industry has dubbed "craveability."

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • Umami -- which is the flavor receptor that MSG makes ring bells and whistles -- is simple a response to the amino acids or glutamates in foods, which not suprisingly reside in salty, aged, and or fermented foods like anchovies.

    I Know I'm a Ceasar Salad Addict Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Umami -- which is the flavor receptor that MSG makes ring bells and whistles -- is simple a response to the amino acids or glutamates in foods, which not suprisingly reside in salty, aged, and or fermented foods like anchovies.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Zarate recounted the evidence that the glutamates, a group of neurotransmitters affected by ketamine, “play an important role in the pathophysiology of depression.”

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • The glutamate theory is a state-of-the art account that states that glutamates, and especially N-methyl-D-aspartate NMDA, are the ultimate beneficiaries of antidepressants, which means that changing serotonin metabolism is only the indirect means to changing NMDA metabolism.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Free glutamates are responsible for the "umami effect", which makes foods taste good.

    HOMEMADE VEGGIE BROTH POWDER, BIG-BATCH CARAMELIZED ONIONS (WITH OR WITHOUT OIL), AND VEGAN ONION SOUP Bryanna Clark Grogan 2008

  • Basically, you want to avoid glutamates whenever possible: glutamates occur naturally in food, but the unnaturally processed concentrated stuff is a neurotoxin!

    Archive 2006-09-01 GreenFertility 2006

  • These are both good sources of glutamates the savory taste named umami and added richness and depth to the broth.

    Soup & Sandwich 2006

  • These are both good sources of glutamates the savory taste named umami and added richness and depth to the broth.

    Soup & Sandwich 2006

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