MAO
Brain chemical processor
MAO is monoamine oxidase, an enzyme that breaks down neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.
MAO inhibitors are a class of antidepressant drugs that block this enzyme, raising levels of these brain chemicals.
The abbreviation appears most often in medical contexts: MAO inhibitors interact dangerously with certain foods. (Capitalized Mao refers to the Chinese leader.)
East Asian superpower
- ChairmanPresiding officer title
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- Cultural RevolutionMaoist mass political campaign
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
Leninism · Red Guards · Great Leap Forward · People's Republic · Long March · propaganda · Little Red Book · peasant
Single-amine compound
- oxidaseOxygen-dependent catalytic protein
- neurotransmitterSynaptic chemical messenger
- dopamineReward-linked neural messenger
- serotoninMood-regulating brain chemical
inhibitor · MAOI · antidepressant · tyramine · metabolism · catalysis · substrate · mitochondrial
China
East Asian superpower
- ChairmanPresiding officer title
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- Cultural RevolutionMaoist mass political campaign
Marxism · Leninism · Red Guards · Great Leap Forward · People's Republic · Long March · propaganda · Little Red Book · peasant · proletariat
monoamine
Single-amine compound
- oxidaseOxygen-dependent catalytic protein
- neurotransmitterSynaptic chemical messenger
- dopamineReward-linked neural messenger
serotonin · inhibitor · MAOI · antidepressant · tyramine · metabolism · catalysis · substrate · mitochondrial · neurochemistry
Chiang Kai-shek · Margaret Thatcher · Ayn Rand · Milton Friedman · Adam Smith
Nelson Mandela · Dalai Lama · Martin Luther King Jr. · Desmond Tutu · liberator
Dwight Eisenhower · Harry Truman · Douglas MacArthur · NATO · John F. Kennedy
- Mao Zedong
- Mao Tse-tung
- Mao suitChinese high-collared uniform
- Mao jacketsChinese political uniform garments