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Phencyclidine
Phencyclidine or PCP refer to a drug that inhibits type NMDA glutamate receptors ; at low doses, produces intoxication and slurred speech, and at higher doses, produces both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Phencyclidinea is a dissociative anesthetic.
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