Clinical Biochemistry of Neurotransmitters
Clinical Biochemistry of Neurotransmitters — Expert Level
How it begins
La neurotransmisión química es el proceso fundamental mediante el cual las neuronas se comunican con sus células efectoras. El inicio de este evento radica en la conversión de una señal eléctrica (el potencial de acción) en una señal química difusible. Este transductor biológico depende de la apertura regulada de los canales de calcio dependientes de voltaje (VGCC) de tipo N y P/Q, ubicados en densidades críticas de…
What it covers
- Excitation-Secretion Coupling and Vesicular Machinery
- Excitatory Amino Acids: The Glutamatergic System
- · Glutamate Receptors
- Inhibitory Amino Acids: The GABAergic and Glycinergic Systems
- · γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
- · Glycine
- Cholinergic Transmission
- · Biosynthesis and Storage
- · Cholinergic Receptors
- · Neurotransmitter Elimination: Enzymatic Degradation
- The Dopaminergic System
- · Biosynthesis and Storage
- · Dopaminergic Receptors
- · Main Dopaminergic Pathways of the Brain
- The Noradrenergic and Adrenergic System
- · Vesicular Biosynthesis and Storage
- · Adrenergic Receptors
- The Serotoninergic and Histaminergic Systems
- · Serotonin
- · Histamine
- Purinergic Transmission
- · ATP as a Vesicular Neurotransmitter
- · Purinergic Signaling: The Concept of Ectonucleotidases
- · Purinergic Receptors
- Endogenous Neuropeptides and Opioids
- · Biosynthesis, Processing and Axonal Transport
- · The Endogenous Opioid System
- Transmitter Gases and Retrograde Messengers
- · Transmitting Gases (Gasotransmitters)
- · Retrograde Signaling by Endocannabinoids
- Compendium of Clinical Correlations and Drug Targets
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- Subject
- Biochemistry
- Category
- Basic Sciences
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 31
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02