Serotonin/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. ^[e]
• Tryptophan [r]: One of four common aromatic amino acids in proteins. ^[e]

Subtopics

Diseases of possible serotonin disorder

• Depression [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Depression (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Fibromyalgia [r]: Inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body, characterized by acute and debilitating widespread musculoskeletal pain. ^[e]
• Serotonin syndrome [r]: Potentially fatal drug interaction caused by combining drugs that raise the level of serotonin in the patient's nervous system to dangerously high levels. ^[e]
• Migraine headache [r]: Vascular type of headache, marked by severe cranial vault pain lasting several hours, resulting from intracranial, extracranial, or psychogenic causes. ^[e]

Drugs affecting it

• Second-generation antidepressant [r]: Antidepressants characterized primarily by the era of their introduction, rather than by their chemical structure or by their pharmacological effect. ^[e]
• Tricyclic antidepressant [r]: Adrenergic uptake inhibitors used in the treatment of depression and other diseases; suppress postsynaptic catechol-O-methyl transferase, causing increases in synaptic norepinephrine and serotonin ^[e]
• Triptan [r]: Add brief definition or description

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Amino acid [r]: Biochemical with an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a side chain bonded to a central carbon. ^[e]
• Biogenic amine receptor [r]: Cell surface proteins that bind biogenic amines with high affinity and regulate intracellular signals which influence the behavior of cells. ^[e]
• Mind [r]: The set of structures and activity states in the brain, body, and environment of a human that enable the physiological activities of thinking and conscious experiencing. ^[e]
• Magnaporthe grisea [r]: Plant-pathogenic ascomycete fungus that causes blast disease or blight disease, in cereal crops including wheat, rye, barley, pearl millet, and rice. ^[e]