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The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of histamine, a physiologically active amine, found in plant and animal tissue and released from mast cells as part of an allergic reaction in humans. Any process that modulates levels of neurotransmitter. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of octopamine, 1-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-2-aminoethanol. The D enantiomer is about one-tenth as active as norepihephrine and is found in the salivary glands of Octopus and Eledone species. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of acetylcholine, the acetic acid ester of the organic base choline. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of substances, including the breakdown of carbon compounds with the liberation of energy for use by the cell or organism. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of substances, carried out by individual cells. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any of a group of substances that are released on excitation from the axon terminal of a presynaptic neuron of the central or peripheral nervous system and travel across the synaptic cleft to either excite or inhibit the target cell. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of phenylethylamine, an amine with pharmacological properties similar to those of amphetamine, occurs naturally as a neurotransmitter in the brain, and is present in chocolate and oil of bitter almonds. The chemical reactions and pathways involving neurotransmitters, any of a group of substances that are released on excitation from the axon terminal of a presynaptic neuron of the central or peripheral nervous system and travel across the synaptic cleft to either excite or inhibit the target cell. The chemical reactions and pathways by which individual cells transform chemical substances.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: neurotransmitter catabolic process
Acc: GO:0042135
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any of a group of substances that are released on excitation from the axon terminal of a presynaptic neuron of the central or peripheral nervous system and travel across the synaptic cleft to either excite or inhibit the target cell.
Synonyms:
  • neurotransmitter catabolism
  • neurotransmitter breakdown
  • neurotransmitter degradation
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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   Term or descendants: 24 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0042135 - neurotransmitter catabolic process (interactive image map)
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