Turning off neurotransmitters
- PMID: 16615882
- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.03.023
Turning off neurotransmitters
Abstract
The historic discovery that the catecholamine neurotransmitters of the sympathetic nervous system, norepinephrine and epinephrine, are inactivated through their reuptake by presynaptic nerve terminals provided new insights into neurotransmitter action and paved the way for the development of modern antidepressant drugs.
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