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• In Your Element | 05 April 2024

  Call me serotonin

  Serotonin is known by many names — in science as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) or enteramine, and in popular culture as the ‘feel good’ chemical or the ‘happy hormone’. Cameron Movassaghi and Anne Andrews discuss the knowns and unknowns of this well-studied yet elusive neurotransmitter.

  • Cameron S. Movassaghi
  •  & Anne Milasincic Andrews

• News & Views | 24 January 2012

  Lighting up with azobenzenes

  The chemical introduction of a photoswitchable ligand into ion channel structures should make it possible to study the diverse roles of neurotransmitters and receptors in the brain.

  • G. Andrew Woolley