| id | GO:0008503 Detailed information
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| name | benzodiazepine receptor activity
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| namespace | molecular_function
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| 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]
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| 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'.
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| is_a | GO:0030594 ! neurotransmitter receptor activity
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