Relationship between catecholamines and
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Zweig, Mark ;Axelrod, Julius
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Article
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1969
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Sympathetic nerves of the pineal gland contain both serotonin and norepinephrine. Inhibition of norepinephrine synthesis with a tyrosine hydroxylase inhibitor, a-methyl-p-tyrosine (aMPT) , causes an elevation of pineal serotonin. The administration of dopamine or norepinephrine blocks the elevation