CATECHOLAMINE

kătˌəkôlˈəmēn, any of several compounds occurring naturally in the body that serve as hormones or as neutrotransmitters in the sympathetic nervous system. The catecholamines include such compounds as epinephrine, or adrenaline, norepinephrine, and dopamine. They resemble one another chemically in having an aromatic portion (catechol) to which is attached an amine, or nitrogen-containing group. Epinephrine and norepinephrine, which are also hormones, are secreted by the adrenal medulla, and norepinephrine is also secreted by some nerve fibers. These substances prepare the body to meet emergencies such as cold, fatigue, and shock, and norepinephrine is probably a chemical transmitter at nerve synapses. Dopamine is an intermediate in the synthesis of epinephrine; in addition, a deficiency of dopamine in the brain is responsible for the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Medical administration of the drug L-dopa, which is presumed to be converted to dopamine in the brain, relieves the symptoms. Epinephrine is used medically to stimulate heartbeat and to treat emphysema, bronchitis, and bronchial asthma and other allergic conditions, as well as in the treatment of the eye disease glaucoma.

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books on: Catecholamine  - 456 results

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Crime in Biological, Social, and Moral Contexts
Book by Lee Ellis, Harry Hoffman; Praeger Publishers, 1990
Subjects: Criminal Behavior, Criminal Behavior--Genetic Aspects, Human Biology--Social Aspects, Sociobiology
...arousal Panksepp 1986:89 . The third catecholamine, dopamine, is also a neurotransmitter...either to interfere with or to enhance catecholamine neural transmission during electrical...researchers found that injections of catecholamine depleters, drugs that deplete the...
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The Evolution of Consciousness
Book by Kishore Gandhi; Paragon House, 1986
Subjects: Consciousness, Genetic Psychology
...hyperactive catecholaminergic function. The catecholamine theory of schizo-affective disorders...here is that an intermediate level of catecholamine function may be associated with an...is to restore the optimal level of catecholamine activity: in patients with depressive...
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Handbook of Positive Psychology
Book by C. R. Snyder, Shane J. Lopez; Oxford University Press, 2002
...individuals also tended to have lower catecholamine base rates. With several colleagues...aerobic training would lead to increased catecholamine capacities, ran counter to most physiologically...exercise elicited high SNS arousal and catecholamine generation, suggesting that repeated...
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Handbook of Health Psychology
Book by Andrew Baum, Tracey A. Revenson, Jerome E. Singer; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001
Subjects: Clinical Health Psychology--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Medicine And Psychology--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...predominantly on cardiovascular and catecholamine outcomes, which are two of the...research. Cardiovascular and Catecholamine Reactivity The training effect of exercise on cardiovascular and catecholamine parameters, and their concomitant...
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Heart Disease in Women
Book by Susan Wilansky, James T. Willerson; Churchill Livingstone, 2002
Subjects: Heart Diseases In Women
...tachycardia in pregnancy have a form of catecholamine-sensitive ventricular tachycardia...histories suggested a possible role for catecholamine sensitivity. Fetal outcomes were very...These Table 29-2. FEATURES OF CATECHOLAMINE-SENSITIVE VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA...
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Two Urinary Catecholamine Measurement Indices for Applied Stress Research: Effects of Time and Temperature until Freezing
Journal article by Achim Elfering, Simone Grebner, Norbert Semmer, Christa Byland, Hans Gerber; Human Factors, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Job stress--Physiological aspects, Job stress--Psychological aspects, Job stress--Research, Job stress--Testing
Two Urinary Catecholamine Measurement Indices for Applied...are highly correlated, salivary catecholamine content is only slightly correlated...compared two different indices of catecholamine measurement. CONCLUSIONS Our main...
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Neonatal Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardant BDE-47 Reduces Long-Term Potentiation and Postsynaptic Protein Levels in Mouse Hippocampus
Journal article by Milou M.L. Dingemans, Geert M.J. Ramakers, Fabrizio Gardoni, Regina G.D.M. Van Kleef, Ake Bergman, Monica Di Luca, Martin Van Den Berg, Remco H.S. Westerink, Henk P.M. Vijverberg; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, 2007
Subjects: Hippocampus (Brain)--Research, House mouse--Physiological aspects, Mice--Physiological aspects, Neurotoxic agents--Research, Proteins--Research
...vitro effects of BDE-47 on vesicular catecholamine release and intracellular Ca.sup...BDE-47 did not reveal changes in catecholamine release parameters. Modest effects...the postsynaptic density (PSD) and catecholamine release from chromaffin cells to further...
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Comt Genotype Influences Prefrontal Response to Emotional Distraction
Journal article by Sonia J. Bishop, Jonathan D. Cohen, John Fossella, B. J. Casey, Martha J. Farah; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 6, 2006
...allele, through its influence on PFC catecholamine metabolism, may reduce the potential...rats indicate a greater effect on PFC catecholamine levels in response to evoked catecholamine release than on baseline PFC catecholamine...
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Physiological Stress Response of the Neuroendocrine System during Outdoor Adventure Tasks
Journal article by Camille J. Bunting, Homer Tolson, Cynthia Kuhn, Edward Suarez, Redford B Williams; Journal of Leisure Research, Vol. 32, 2000
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers--Physiological aspects, Epinephrine--Research, Hydrocortisone--Research, Noradrenaline--Research, Stress (Psychology)--Physiological aspects
...significant increases in norepinephrine (the catecholamine most closely aligned with physical...physical stress evokes elevations of catecholamine levels, predominantly norepinephrine...subjects generally have had greater catecholamine responses, especially NE, to physical...
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Sustained Exposure to the Widely Used Herbicide Atrazine: Altered Function and Loss of Neurons in Brain Monoamine Systems
Journal article by Veronica M. Rodriguez, Mona Thiruchelvam, Deborah A. Cory-Slechta; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, 2005
...reproductive tract in males. Because multiple catecholamine systems are present in the brain...findings suggest that ATR could disrupt catecholamine metabolism by altering its biosynthetic...ATR can adversely affect hypothalamic catecholamine systems has notable implications because...
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Serotonin: the Neurotransmitter for the '90s
Magazine article by Ronald F. Borne; Drug Topics, Vol. 138, October 10, 1994
Subjects: Continuing education, Pharmacists, Prescription drugs, R&D, Science, United States
...surprising that serotonin, like its catecholamine counterparts, possesses a diversity...hypothesis involves abnormal function of the catecholamine (primarily norepinephrine) and...selective inhibitors of 5-HT uptake than catecholamine uptake compared to secondary amines...
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Ritalin: Miracle Drug of Cop-Out?
Magazine article by Ken Livingstone; Public Interest, Spring 1997
Subjects: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder--Drug use, Methylphenidate hydrochloride--Usage, Ritalin (Medication)--Research
...community of ADHD researchers as the "catecholamine hypothesis" to explain what is wrong...catecholamines referred to in the phrase "catecholamine hypothesis" are among the dozens of...neurotransmitter dysfunction, in this case a catecholamine imbalance. The catecholamines are...
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Identifying Causes of Secondary Hypertension
Magazine article by Laura Carter Smoot, Kenneth E. Smoot; Drug Topics, Vol. 152, September 15, 2008
Subjects: Clinical medicine, Hypertension, Medical practices, United States
...related cause of hypertension. These catecholamine secreting tumors in the adrenal medulla...diagnosed by measuring plasma or urine catecholamine levels and their metabolites (vanillylmandelic...stabilize blood pressure. Due to the catecholamine involvement, agents such as alpha...
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Most Frequently Asked Questions regarding Depression
Magazine article by W. Marvin Davis; Drug Topics, Vol. 141, October 6, 1997
Subjects: Continuing education, Mental depression, Pharmacists, United States
...monoamines. Most data pointed to a critical role of enhancing catecholamine functions, but TCAs also had actions involving brain serotonin...results from an upregulation of the brain receptors for catecholamine neurotransmitters, dopamine, and norepinephrine. 17...
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Adjust Your Brain
Magazine article by Kym Kuenning; World and I, Vol. 22, September 2007
Subjects: Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...seizures, and ineffective thought patterns. Dopamine, a catecholamine, mimics the effects of the sympathetic nervous system by...another neurotransmitter that scientists also classify as a catecholamine. It is made in the brain stem and the adrenal medulla...
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newspaper articles on: Catecholamine  - 4 results

 
 
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Diet-Induced Body Heat Production
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 23, 2010
...studies, capsaicin from chili reduced adiposity in rats by enhancing energy and lipid metabolism, possibly by increasing catecholamine (epinephrine and norepinephrine) secretions. In some human studies, meals containing chili in lean young people have...
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Allison Beats All the Odds; Mum Thought It Was Her Time to Die after Diagnosis of Rare Cancer
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 8, 2010
...phoned 999." By the time the ambulance arrived, Allison lost consciousness and was suffering from what is known as a catecholamine crisis, caused by adrenal glands flooding her body with excessive amounts of adrenaline and non-adrenaline. She admits...
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'I Left Him at the Gates to Go on a School Trip and He Never Came Back' HEARTDEFECT KILLEDTEEN AFTERCANOE CAPSIZED
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 2, 2010
...Stewart about it if he hadknown earlier but would still have gone ahead with the activity. The cause of death was given as catecholamine polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. Recording a narrative verdict at the inquest in Brecon, Powys Coroner Peter Maddox...
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Health: Food to Make You Feel Good; You Are What You Eat - So Cheer Yourself Up by Learning to Be a Happy Eater. Choosing the Right Foods Can Nourish Your Mood as Well as Your Body
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), September 5, 2004
...wear out your adrenal glands and drain your energy. Eggs contain an amino acid called tyrosine which is converted into catecholamine, a chemical that acts as a natural stimulant. Vitamin D helps this process take place, so have some milk or yoghurt too...


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encyclopedia articles on: Catecholamine  - 5 results

 
 
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Catecholamine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CATECHOLAMINE kat kol men, any of several compounds occurring naturally in the body that serve as hormones or as neurotransmitters in the sympathetic...
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Epinephrine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EPINEPHRINE ep nef rin, hormone important to the bodys metabolism, also known as adrenaline. Epinephrine, a catecholamine , together with norepinephrine , is secreted principally by the medulla of the adrenal gland . Heightened secretion caused...
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Dopamine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DOPAMINE dop men, one of the intermediate substances in the biosynthesis of epinephrine and norepinephrine. See catecholamine . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Norepinephrine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NOREPINEPHRINE nor epinef r n, a neurotransmitter in the catecholamine family that mediates chemical communication in the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system. Like...
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L-Dopa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...drug is also called levodopa. Parkinsons disease results when the concentration of dopamine in the brain is depleted (see catecholamine ). Medical administration of dopamine itself is ineffective since that chemical apparently does not enter the brain from...


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