HISTNEUR-L: The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum

Re: Supersensitivity

• Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:59:16 -0500
• To:   histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Richard Burack <burack@ncia.net>
• Subject:   Re: Supersensitivity
• Message-ID:   3C4CC774.A459EEA1@ncia.net

I suppose that Julius Axelrod took us to a new level of understanding
with studies by him and his colleagues, showing how drug/poisons that
block the neuronal reuptake of transmitter by adrenergic neurons leads
to "supersensitivity." You know as well as anyone that the phenomenon of
supersensitivity has been known for about a century.

			Richard Burack