他在使用一种危险的药物——这种药物很快作用于中枢神经系统。

He's taking a dangerous drug: it acts very fast on the central nervous system.

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许多神经递质首先通过增加靶神经元中的循环 AMP 浓度来发挥其作用。

A number of neurotransmitters exert their effects by first increasing cyclic AMP concentrations in target neurons.

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嗅觉一直是我们的感官中受到了解最少的，直到最近，耶鲁大学的戈登·谢泼德领导的神经科学研究才开始揭示它是如何发挥作用的。

Smell has been the most poorly understood of our senses, and only recently has neuroscience, led by Yale University's Gordon Shepherd, begun to shed light on its workings.

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Many neurotransmitters that carry signals between neurons in your brain work this way.

在脑部神经元细胞中,传递信号的神经递质分子的,作用原理就是如此

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And what an agonist does is increases the effect of neurotransmitters, either by making more neurotransmitters or stopping the cleanup of neurotransmitters, or in some cases by faking a neurotransmitter, by mimicking its effects.

兴奋剂会增加神经递质的作用效果,有可能是通过释放更多的神经递质而实现,也可能是通过阻止神经递质的排出而实现,也有时候是通过伪造神经递质,通过模仿神经递质的效果来实现的

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