Mesh term Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Browse to parent terms:Membrane Transport Modulators
Neurotransmitter Agents
Description
Drugs that inhibit the transport of neurotransmitters into axon terminals or into storage vesicles within terminals. For many transmitters, uptake determines the time course of transmitter action so inhibiting uptake prolongs the activity of the transmitter. Blocking uptake may also deplete available transmitter stores. Many clinically important drugs are uptake inhibitors although the indirect reactions of the brain rather than the acute block of uptake itself is often responsible for the therapeutic effects.Browse to child terms:
Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors
Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
GABA Uptake Inhibitors
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
Serotonin and Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors
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