Re:The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review o...
by caycep on Saturday March 01, 2025 @11:45AM
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bupropion does...a lot of things (including mildly doing what dextroamphetamine does...). A lot of these drugs don't just hit one receptor type...(don't get a pharmd started on receptor affinity binding profiles...)
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Re:The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review o...
by partomniscient on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:13PM
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Fair call. So much of this stuff is simplified for us laypeople, but yeah - when you look up what so-and-so molecule does and find out how many different binding sites it interacts with as an agonist/antagonist/catlyst (and sometimes they've only measured interactions in rats) you realise there's a heck of a lot of stuff going on.
I also got slightly weirded out when I found out something I was taking interacted with the mu-opiod receptors even though it wasn't an opiate.