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npr jan 18, 2009

Study Sheds light on How Depression Drugs Work. By Jon Hamilton

http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=protein+p11

Questions:

Could Researchers use human to do researchs?

Why the discovery of this protein P11 is important?

Vocabulary:

Depression - Pathology. a low state of vital powers or functional activity.

Serotonin - a neurotransmitter, derived from tryptophan, that is involved in sleep, depression, memory, and other neurological processes.

Autopsy - inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.

Defenitions from http://dictionary.reference.com