TY  - JOUR
T1  - SErotonin.
AU  - Spodick DH
Y1  - 1969/08/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300180121023
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 249
EP  - 250
VL  - 124
IS  - 2
N2  - Serotonin! Here, indeed is a substance to conjure with. At least its myriad physiologic and pathologic associations have conjured up thousands of papers, while inspiring clinicians and researchers and even a bit of poesy:This man was addicted to moanin',Confusion, edema and groanin',Intestinal rushes,Great tricolored blushes,And died from too much serotonin.—W. B. Bean and D. FunkArchives of Internal Medicine103:189 (Feb) 1959"Serotonin," the word as a book title might discourage the general reader and attract the connoisseur. Both would be wrong. The biochemically-oriented, expecting (justifiably) a veritable Handbuch, would do better to consult Page's comprehensive discussions (1945 and 1958) in Physiological Reviews. Others will find a pleasant evening's overview of this metabolic jack-ofmany-trades, which has "replaced epinephrine as a sure road to tenure for the pharmacologist", by the man who (with Rapport and Green) first isolated serotonin twenty years ago. A formidable
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300180121023
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300180121023
ER  -