Dihydroxytryptamines
"Dihydroxytryptamines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Tryptamine substituted with two hydroxyl groups in any position. Some are cytotoxic serotonin analogs that are preferentially taken up by serotonergic neurons and then destroy those neurons.
| Descriptor ID |
D004102
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.473.914.201
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Melchior CL, Tabakoff B. The effect of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine treatment on the response to ethanol in mice. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1986 Apr; 24(4):955-61.