Tag Archives | Central Transmitters

The transmitters, central or peripheral, may be conveniently classified into two categories: 1. Non-peptide transmitter with molecular weight less than 200. These include amines and amino acids. The amines include acetylcholine (a tertiary amine) and biogenic amines e.g. dopamine, serotonin (5-HT), norepinephrine, epinephrine and histamine. The amino acids include glycine and GABA (monocarboxylic; inhibitory), and glutamate/aspartate (dicarboxylic; excitatory), and 2. [...]