serotonin

See also: Serotonin and serótónín

English

Etymology

From sero- +‎ tone +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹəˈtəʊnɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹəˈtoʊnɪn/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

serotonin (countable and uncountable, plural serotonins)

1. (biochemistry) An indoleamine neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine, that is involved in depression, appetite, etc., and is crucial in maintaining a sense of well-being, security, etc.
   • 2015 August 21, “Generation of a Tph2 Conditional Knockout Mouse Line for Time- and Tissue-Specific Depletion of Brain Serotonin”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Notably, mouse lines targeting genes codifying for serotonin receptors, for enzymes involved in 5-HT synthesis as Tph1 and Tph2, in its metabolism as monoaminoxidase A (MAOA) or in its re-uptake as serotonin transporter (SERT), have been generated.

   • 2024 March 21, Kristen Rogers, “If antidepressants are killing your sex life, here’s what you can do”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain.

Abbreviations

• 5-HT

Synonyms

• 5-hydroxytryptamine

Derived terms

• selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
• serotonin-specific
• serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
• serotonin syndrome

Related terms

• serotonergic

Translations

the compound 5-hydroxytryptamine

• Arabic: سِيرُوتُونِين (ar) m (sīrūtūnīn)

  Hijazi Arabic: سيروتونين m (sīrōtōnīn)

• Asturian: serotonina f
• Belarusian: сератані́н m (sjeratanín)
• Catalan: serotonina f
• Czech: serotonin (cs) m
• Danish: serotonin
• Esperanto: serotonino
• Finnish: serotoniini (fi)
• French: sérotonine (fr) f
• Galician: serotonina f
• German: Serotonin (de) n
• Greek: σεροτονίνη (el) f (serotoníni)
• Hungarian: szerotonin (hu)
• Icelandic: serótónín n
• Indonesian: serotonin
• Italian: serotonina (it) f
• Japanese: セロトニン (serotonin)
• Korean: 세로토닌 (serotonin)
• Latvian: serotonīns m
• Polish: serotonina (pl) f
• Portuguese: serotonina (pt) f
• Romanian: serotonină (ro) f
• Russian: серотони́н (ru) m (serotonín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: серото̀нӣн m

  Roman: serotònīn (sh) m

• Spanish: serotonina (es) f
• Swedish: serotonin (sv)
• Thai: เซโรโทนิน, ซีโรโทนิน
• Turkish: serotonin (tr)
• Ukrainian: серотоні́н m (serotonín)

Further reading

• “serotonin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• serotonin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ironstone

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛrotonɪn]
• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛrotoniːn]

Noun

serotonin m inan

1. serotonin

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Japanese

Romanization

serotonin

1. Rōmaji transcription of セロトニン

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /serotǒniːn/

Noun

serotònīn m (Cyrillic spelling серото̀нӣн)

1. (biochemistry) serotonin

Declension

Declension of serotonin

	singular
nominative	serotònīn
genitive	serotonína
dative	serotoninu
accusative	serotonin
vocative	serotonine
locative	serotoninu
instrumental	serotoninom