 N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
"N,N-Dimethyltryptamine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An N-methylated indoleamine derivative and serotonergic hallucinogen which occurs naturally and ubiquitously in several plant species including Psychotria veridis. It also occurs in trace amounts in mammalian brain, blood, and urine, and is known to act as an agonist or antagonist of certain SEROTONIN RECEPTORS.
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D004130
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.092.211.215.801.451 D03.633.100.473.914.237
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Liester MB, Prickett JI. Hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of ayahuasca in the treatment of addictions. J Psychoactive Drugs. 2012 Jul-Aug; 44(3):200-8.
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