This drug works to inhibit tryptophan hydroxylase by preventing the synthesis of serotonin from its metabolic precursor.

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Inhibition of transmitter synthesis by a drug may happen in many ways. For example, a drug may inhibit the enzymes that neurons use to synthesize a particular neurotransmitter, resulting in depletion of that transmitter.

Drug inhibition of transmitter synthesis

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

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