What the heck is the noradrenergic system for and how do we know? I know it has something to do with arousal and attention. It's not central to the system underlying Intercranial Self Stimulation. Destruction of 80-97% of these neurons in different nuclei dont diminish ICS.
I'll be looking for experiments with microinjections, broad injections, and blocking of NE. I'll also be looking at what happens when NE systems are neurochemically lesioned. NE systems are so broad so I'm maybe expecting it to be hard to find clean delineations.
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I followed up on a hunch that melatonin and norepinephrine would have biochemical coupling. "In vertebrates, melatonin secretion is regulated by activation of the beta-1 adrenergic receptor by norepinephrine." Happy I'm finally using my biochem training.
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Dopamine is the precursor for norepinephrine synthesis and I just found melatonin's precursor is serotonin. From a systems biology perspective these relationship set up dynamic systems. Put another way, these are chemical circuits.
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