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5-Fluorowillardiine is a selective agonist for the AMPA receptor with only limited effects at the kainate receptor. It is an excitotoxic neurotoxin when used in vivo and so is rarely used in intact animals but it is widely used to selectively stimulate AMPA receptors in vitro.5-Fluorowillardiine exists as two distinct isomers: (2R) or D (2S) or L↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑