Term Information

Accession
GO:0008503
Name
benzodiazepine receptor activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Combining with benzodiazepines, a class of drugs with hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsive, amnestic and myorelaxant properties, to initiate a change in cell activity. Source: GOC:jl
Comment
Note that this term represents an activity and not a gene product. Consider also annotating to the molecular function terms 'chloride channel activity ; GO:0005254', 'GABA receptor activity ; GO:0016917' and 'inhibitory extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity ; GO:0005237'.
History
See term history for GO:0008503 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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benzodiazepine receptor activity [is_a relation] is_a  neurotransmitter receptor activity (GO:0030594)

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