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Category:GO:0008503 ! benzodiazepine receptor activity
name: benzodiazepine receptor activity
namespace: molecular_function
def: "Combining with benzodiazepines, a class of drugs with hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsive, amnestic and myorelaxant properties, to initiate a change in cell activity." [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'.
is_a: GO:0030594 ! neurotransmitter receptor activity
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<GOterm>GO:0008503</GOterm>
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