Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index BAPTA is a calcium-specific chelator. Nomenclature name: 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid. As the field of neuroscience has been fixated on learning and memory in recent decades, BAPTA has been used extensively in such studies. In particular, BAPTA can block the postsynaptic calcium influx that is thought to trigger and maintain a form of synaptic memory called long-term potentiation. Chemical structure: See also: calcium, LTP, NMDA, AMPA, synapse This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.