Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Positive Effects of Tryptophan and Serotonin on Cognition during Aging and Related-Diseases
(David Moranta, Fiorella Sarubbo, Margarita R. Ramis, Sara Aparicio, Antonio Miralles and Susana Esteban, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain)
Chapter 2
Kynurenine and Serotonin Pathways of Tryptophan Metabolism: The Etiology and Pathogenesis of Depression
(Sang Won Jeon, and Yong-Ku Kim, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Ansan Hospital, Republic of Korea)
Chapter 3
L-tryptophan in Perinatal Nutrition, a Putative Role in Circadian Rhythm Acquisition?
(Elizabeth Nascimento, and Bertrand Kaeffer, Departamento de Nutrição, Centro de Ciências da Saude, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 4
Tryptophanase Enantioselectivity Transforming D-Serine from Inhibitor to Active Substrate in the Presence of Triammonium Phosphate
(Akihiko Shimada and Ikumi Otsuka, Sustainable Environment Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Chapter 5
Tryptophan Molecule Fragmentation in Collisions with Low-Energy Electrons
(A. V. Snegursky, J. Tamuliene, L. G. Romanova, V. S. Vukstich and A. V. Papp, Institute of Electron Physics, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, and others)
Commentary
A Novel Tryptophan-Selective Amino Acid Transporter that is Functionally Coupled to IDO1-Dependent Signaling Pathways
(Yangzom D. Bhutia and Vadivel Ganapathy, Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA)
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