MOLECULES 1: BIOLOGICALLY & ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT ELEMENTS

Chemistry

study of matter, its properties and the changes it undergoes.

field of chemistry

1. biochemistry

2. energy

3. medicine

4. thechnology

neurotransmitters

Chemicals that relay, amplify, and modulate signals across synapses between neurons.

whare is the neurotransmitters located

they are packed into vesicles beneath the membrane on the postsynaptic side of the synaps

what neurotransmitters do?

they bind two recieptors into the membrane on the postsynaptic side

what happend when neurotransmitters releases?

usually the follows arrival of action potentials at the synaps, but they may follow graded electrical potentials

what is that

sites of drug action

symptoms of nurotransmitters lacking

1. feeling sad

2. helplessness

3. worthlessness

4. emptiness

5. over-eating or loss appitite

6. insomnia or too much sleeping

what it does?

(R)-noraadrenaline

boost blood pressure

what it does?

dopamine

treatment of shock

drug testing in olympic games

1. Erythropoietin (EPO)

2. Human growth hormone

3. Beta-blockers