tryptamine

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(uncountable, biochemistry) a heterocyclic amine found in both plant and animal tissue, where it is an intermediate in several metabolic schemes.

(countable, medicine) Any of a class of neurotransmitters and psychedelic drugs derived from this compound.

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Also, robust evidence that INMT can catalyze transmethylation of tryptamine into NMT and DMT could be provided with reverse isotope dilution analysis coupled to mass spectrometry for rabbit citation citation and human citation lung during the early 1970s. Source: Internet

Tryptamine then undergoes a transmethylation (step 2): the enzyme indolethylamine-N-methyltransferase (INMT) catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from cofactor S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM), via nucleophilic attack, to tryptamine. Source: Internet

Tryptamine transmethylation is regulated by two products of the reaction: SAH, citation citation citation and DMT were shown ex vivo to be among the most potent inhibitors of rabbit INMT activity. Source: Internet

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