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  1. Glossary | Julius Axelrod - Profiles in Science 
    https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/hh/feature/glossary
    ... functions in the nervous system by breaking down monoamine neurotransmitters. Narcotic -- A frequently addictive depressant drug (e.g., ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (pages 251-275) 
    Publication: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.), 1999
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584932X132
    ... hypothesis” and the “indoleamine (1.e., 8 : : 7 Monoamine neurotransmitters are a chemical class that includes catecholamines (norepinephrine, ... more than 30 years of research, however, the monoamine hypothesis has been ... neurotransmitter systems are altered in depression, including GABA and ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General 
    Publication: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.), 1999
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584932X120
    ... hypothesis” and the “indoleamine (1.e., 8 : : 7 Monoamine neurotransmitters are a chemical class that includes catecholamines (norepinephrine, ... more than 30 years of research, however, the monoamine hypothesis has been ... neurotransmitter systems are altered in depression, including GABA and ...
  4. Norepinephrine and Neurotransmitters, 1957-1974 | Julius Axelrod - Profiles in Science 
    https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/hh/feature/neurotransmitters
    ... developed a class of antidepressant drugs known as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) that disable the enzyme and allow neurotransmitters to work properly. Like many scientists of the ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (pages 26-50) 
    Publication: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.), 1999
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584932X123
    ... Glutamate Inhibitory amino acids Gamma aminobutyric acid Glycine Monoamines and related neurotransmitters Norepinephrine Dopamine Serotonin Histamine Acetylcholine (quarternary amine) Purine ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Regulation of the Neurotransmitter Norepinephrine 
    Publication: M.I.T. Press, 1974
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584577X14
    ... effective means of terminating the action of the neurotransmitter. When both monoamine oxidase and catechol-O-methyltrans- ferase, enzymes involved ... supply and activity of catechol- O-methyltransferase, and monoamine oxidase. ... the neurotransmitter on nerve stimulation (Hertting et al., 1961b; Brown ...
  7. The Nobel Prize and Public Science after 1970 | Julius Axelrod - Profiles in Science 
    https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/hh/feature/prize
    ... antidepressant drugs still rely on Axelrod's discoveries about neurotransmitter reuptake, although the emphasis on monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) has shifted to that of ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Doing Research in the Intramural Program of the National Institutes of Health 
    Publication: Johns Hopkins University. Press, 1986
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584577X48
    ... the metabolism of catecholamines was described as involving monoamine oxidase and COMT. It was believed in 1957 that neurotransmitters were inactivated by the enzyme monoamine oxidase. After ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Catecholamine Neurotransmitters, Psychoactive Drugs, and Biological Clocks 
    Publication: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, November 1981
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584577X15
    ... by reuptake into the nerve; some of the neurotransmitter is discharged into the blood stream and metabolized by catechol- O-methyltransferase and monoamine oxidase in the liver and kidney. Because of ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health 
    Publication: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General, 1988
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584932X695
    ... other areas of the brain. Several types of neurotransmitters are thought to play a role in appetite regulation, including the monoamines, opioid peptides, other neuropep- tides, and gamma-aminobutyric ...
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