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Norepinephrine. Note extra hydroxy group. Image File history File links Norepinephrine_structure. ... Norepinephrine (INN) or noradrenaline (BAN) is a catecholamine and a phenethylamine with chemical formula C8H11NO3. ... This prefix in chemical nomenclature indicates the presence of a hydroxyl functional group (-OH). ...

In the peripheral nervous system, it is located predominantly within sympathetic nerve vesicles, but it is also present in preganglionic motor nerve fibers of the vagus nerve. ^[1] Anatomy and Physiology of the A.N.S. In contrast to the voluntary nervous system, the involuntary or autonomic nervous system is responsible for homeostasis, maintaining a relatively constant internal environment by controlling such involuntary functions as digestion, respiration, and metabolism, and by modulating blood pressure. ... In the autonomic nervous system, fibers from the CNS to the ganglion are known as preganglionic fibers. ... The vagus nerve (also called pneumogastric nerve or cranial nerve X) is the tenth of twelve paired cranial nerves, and is the only nerve that starts in the brainstem (within the medulla oblongata) and extends, through the jugular foramen, down below the head, to the abdomen. ...

See also

• hydroxylation

Hydroxylation is any chemical process that introduces one or more hydroxyl groups (-OH) into a compound (or radical) thereby oxidising it. ...

References

1. ^ Yang M, Zhao X, Miselis R (1999). "The origin of catecholaminergic nerve fibers in the subdiaphragmatic vagus nerve of rat". J Auton Nerv Syst 76 (2-3): 108-17. PMID 10412834. 

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• MeSH Dopamine+beta-Hydroxylase