Quiz 1 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What are some Excitatory Nuerotransmitters? (NT)
Glutamate
Nicotine
What are some Inhibitory NT’s?
Dopamine
GABA
What are some NT’s that do Inhibition and Excite?
Ach
NE
5HT (Seratonin
What are the common receptors for NE?
Alpha 1,2
Beta
What is another name for ligand-gated channels?
Iontropic
What are MEtabotropic receptors?
G coupled receptors
Catecholamines, Serotonin, and Histamine are what?
Monoamines
because of the single Amine
Dopamine, NE, and Epinephrine are what?
Catecholamines
Dopamine (DA) starts of as what?
Tyrosine
What metabolizes Dopamine?
Monoamine oxidase
NE starts off as what?
Tyrosine
Dopamine beta hydroxalase does what?
Changes DA to NE
What changes NE to epinephrine?
PNMT (phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase)
WHat stores EPi?
CGAT VMAT-1
Chromaffin granule amine transporter
Serotonin is also known as what?
5 hydroxytyptomine
5HT
Serotonin starts off as what?
Tryptophan
Ach starts off as what?
Choline
acetyl Coa
Is there Ach transporter?
no
what breaks down Ach?
Acetylcholinestrase
Glutamate starts off as what (2)?
Glutamine
OR
Alpha-ketoglutrate
what does aminotransferase do?
changes Alpha-ketoglutrate into
What can change Gltamate into glutamine?
Astrocytes
In an Astrocyte what does it do to GABA?
turns it into Succinate
H3 receptors are thought to function as what?
Inhibitory heteroreceptor
