줄리어스 액설로드

소개

줄리어스 액설로드(영어: Julius Axelrod, ForMemRS, 1912년 5월 30일 ~ 2004년 12월 29일)는 미국의 생화학자이다. 신경말단에서의 정보전달 물질을 발견·연구한 공로로 1970년에 울프 폰 오일러, 버나드 카츠와 함께 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

Julius Axelrod was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle.