How to Use tryptamine in a Sentence

tryptamine

noun

• But very little is known about how these other tryptamines affect humans.
  — Hollis Karoly, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
• The neurotransmitter serotonin, which among other things regulates mood, cognition, and social behavior, is a tryptamine.
  — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
• Diagrams of the two tryptamines looked nearly identical, each represented by two angular rings and a tail, resembling microscopic organisms; the only difference lay in the shape of the head.
  — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
• Psilocybin mushrooms contain numerous other compounds, together known as tryptamines, such as baeocystin, norbaeocystin and aeruginascin.
  — Hollis Karoly, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
• Thus, the many ongoing clinical trials testing psilocybin as a treatment for various mental health conditions use synthetic psilocybin that does not contain these other tryptamines.
  — Hollis Karoly, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
• Toshio Hoshino and Kenya Shimodaira were working on a family of compounds known as the tryptamines, which occur widely in nature and have a range of intriguing biological properties.
  — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
• This line of inquiry had led Fabing to bufotenine, the tryptamine relative of 5-MeO-DMT that Hoshino and Shimodaira had originally synthesized.
  — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026