| phencyclidine | <drug> Anaesthetic and drug of a kind that can produce marked behavioural effects. Interacts with the NMDA receptor. (31 Dec 1997) |
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| phencyclidine abuse | The misuse of phencyclidine with associated psychological symptoms and impairment in social or occupational functioning. (12 Dec 1998) |
| receptors, phencyclidine | Specific sites or molecular structures on cell membranes or in cells with which phencyclidine reacts or to which it binds to elicit the specific response of the cell to phencyclidine. Studies have demonstrated the presence of multiple receptor sites for pcp. These are the pcp/sigma site, which binds both pcp and psychotomimetic opiates but not certain antipsychotics, and the pcp site, which selectively binds pcp analogs. (12 Dec 1998) |
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