serotonin / ˌsɛr əˈtoʊ nɪn, ˌsɪər- /

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serotonin 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Biochemistry.

  1. a neurotransmitter, derived from tryptophan, that is involved in sleep, depression, memory, and other neurological processes.

更多serotonin例句

  1. The best weighted blankets work by evenly distributing weight across the body to increase serotonin production, which makes us feel calmer.
  2. When sunlight goes away, it can also take serotonin away with it.
  3. You just learned that serotonin can affect a dreaming person’s sense of how significant a weak association is.
  4. The only drug that worked on this system of glutamate — rather than something like, for example, Prozac affects things like serotonin as does all the other dozens of antidepressants on the market.
  5. Little is known about how serotonin acts in the brain, and investigators quickly recognized that PCPA could be used to study this brain chemical.
  6. Once your serotonin levels are back up to normal, they can make enough melatonin so you can sleep better, says Dr. Rindfleisch.
  7. Spaghetti squash also contains specific nutrients that help convert the tryptophan in other foods you eat into serotonin.
  8. Flooding your brain with dopamine and serotonin, it not only heightens feelings of euphoria, but empathy and love as well.
  9. Besides dopamine, serotonin might play a role, too, researchers say, as well as other brain chemicals and receptors.
  10. Those drugs are SSRIs—serotonin uptake inhibitors—and they spin their mood magic by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain.