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It's what Ecstasy does to serotonin levels that concerns us most right now.

Alan Leshner

This disparity between simple pharmacological effects and clinical experience might be due to the time it takes for serotonin axons to grow. For the patient, this hypothesis provides more tangible evidence of a real effect in the brain.

Vassilis E. Koliatsos

What it actually does is blocks those receptors so serotonin can't go into them and cause more nausea.

Suzanna Zick

But our findings — that serotonin reuptake modulators increase the density of nerve synapses, especially in the front part of the brain — may offer a better explanation of why antidepressants are effective and why they take time to work.

Vassilis E. Koliatsos

The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, between immune cells that is normally only found between neurons.

Gerard Ahern

We're all very excited about this discovery. People have been looking for modulators of serotonin for a long time.

Paul Greengard

At this point we just don't know how these drugs might affect immunity, so we really need to clarify the normal role of serotonin in immune cell functioning.

Gerard Ahern

It's what anti-depressants are all about. These drugs work to elevate serotonin levels or at least keep them from dropping too low. The right foods accomplish the same thing.

Susan Kleiner

However, p11 is functionally linked to a serotonin receptor, and there are a number of drugs in development that act selectively on this receptor, and some of these drugs show antidepressant potential in laboratory models. We will know in a few years whether these kinds of drugs are better than the antidepressant treatments that we already have.

Trevor Sharp

In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machinery to take up serotonin and to secrete it in an excitatory manner. The point behind this transmission is not entirely clear, but it appears to be an additional way of stimulating a T cell response.

Gerard Ahern