"Tetrabenazine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A drug formerly used as an antipsychotic and treatment of various movement disorders. Tetrabenazine blocks neurotransmitter uptake into adrenergic storage vesicles and has been used as a high affinity label for the vesicle transport system.
| Descriptor ID |
D013747
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.834.850
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tetrabenazine" by people in Profiles.
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Tetrabenazine inhibition of monoamine uptake and methamphetamine behavioral effects: locomotor activity, drug discrimination and self-administration. Neuropharmacology. 2011 Sep; 61(4):849-56.
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Role of vesicular monoamine transporter type 2 in rodent insulin secretion and glucose metabolism revealed by its specific antagonist tetrabenazine. J Endocrinol. 2008 Jul; 198(1):41-9.
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Visualizing pancreatic beta-cell mass with [11C]DTBZ. Nucl Med Biol. 2006 Oct; 33(7):855-64.
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Identification of tissue-restricted transcripts in human islets. Endocrinology. 2004 Oct; 145(10):4513-21.