Example sentences for: neurotransmitter

How can you use “neurotransmitter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The study found an increase of the neurotransmitter dopamine in rats' nucleus accumbens--often termed "the pleasure center of the brain"--following several cannabinoid injections.

  • Classical neurotransmitter receptors such as muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR), adrenergic, dopaminergic, serotoninergic as well as neuropeptide receptors belong to this family ( 1).

  • Ion channels and neurotransmitter related genes tend to decrease their expression while those associated with the cytoskeleton increase.

  • Recent in vitro observations that α-synuclein is phosphorylated by G protein-coupled receptor kinases, and that this phosphorylation relieves its inhibitory action on PLD2 [ 40 ] , suggest a novel mechanism by which neurotransmitter receptors (including muscarinic receptors) might modulate PLD2 activity.

  • Heterogeneity within the groups was also higher than in the antidepressant experiment, probably because a selective pharmacologic antagonization of the neuro-modulating peptide CRH [ 27] had a less pronounced and stereotypic effect on transcription in the brain than the antidepressant drugs acting on a wide spectrum of neurotransmitter receptors, transporters and related enzymes [ 30].


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