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Serotonin and life span

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:42
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Home of Kyle J. Norton for The Better of Living & Living Health Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter derived from tryptophan,  primarily found in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, platelets, and in the central nervous system (CNS). In Gut, serotonin regulates intestinal movements, in CNS, it regulates mood, appetite, sleep, memory and learning, etc,.
Serotonin and life span
In the study to develop a new quantitative method to analyze Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral states, found that the proportion of time spent in each state is modulated by past nutritional experiences of the animal. This two-state behavior is regulated through serotonin as well as insulin and TGF-beta signaling pathways. Biogenic amines signaling could allow the worm to adapt to fast changes in the environment when peptide transcriptional pathways may mediate slower adaptive changes(49).

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(49) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762077/  http://medicaladvisorjournals.blogspot.com



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