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Serotonin Signaling through Lipid Membranes

Liubov S. Kalinichenko, Johannes Kornhuber, Steffen Sinning, Jana Haase, Christian P. Müller
ACS Chemical Neuroscience Summary & key facts 2024 29 citations

Serotonin is a brain chemical that helps control many behaviors. This paper reviews research showing that the fats in the outer layer of nerve cells — the cell membrane — can change how the proteins that make, store, release, and detect serotonin work. Those fat–protein interactions are not fixed. They…

Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
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