Salaam,
@ Laila Marium
Thanks. Good site.
@ Miss Naqvi
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Extremely high levels of serotonin can have toxic and potentially fatal effects, causing a condition known as serotonin syndrome.
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Well, if such conditions do exist, then "Laughinng Gas" (N2O) is generally characterized as an inhibitor of serotonin receptors. So if the patient is really running a high level of serotonin, it is a good idea to inhibit the receptors just in order to disprove the induction of too much serotonin in the 5-ht receptors. For that, N2O is really fast acting and effective.
Under room conditions, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a pleasant, slightly sweet odor. It is used in surgery and dentistry for its anesthetic and analgesic effects, where it is commonly known as laughing gas due to the euphoric effects of inhaling it. It is also used as a means to enable short periods of extreme high performance in automobile internal combustion engines by introducing extra oxygen into the intake charge which in turn allows a greater amount of fuel to be added and converted into energy and thereby greatly increasing the power produced by the engine. Nitrous oxide is present in the atmosphere where it acts as a powerful greenhouse gas.
Refrences :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract