Wiktionary
excitotoxin
n. Any neurotransmitter involved in excitotoxicity
Usage examples of "excitotoxin".
Subtle metabolic changes can turn glutamate into an excitotoxin that kills neurons in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain one uses in memory formation.
At thirty-one he won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on genetically modified excitotoxins in neural mitochondria.