09. Drugs and Neurotransmitters

Sheila A Doggrell

Discipline of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001, Australia

Phone +61 7 38705741 Fax +61 7 31381534 Email sheila.doggrell@qut.edu.au

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Key words: drugs and neurotransmitters, synthesis and L-DOPA, release and lignocaine, release and amantadine, receptors and the agonist salbutamol and the antagonist atenolol, cell signaling and diazepam, metabolism and entacapone, neuronal uptake and fluoxetine

Contents

9. Drugs and neurotransmitters

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Synthesis

9.3 Release

9.4 Receptors

9.5 Cell signalling

9.6 Inactivation