Ax·el·rod  (āk'səl-rŏd')  American biochemist. He shared a 1970 Nobel Prize for studies of how nerve impulses are transmitted. |
Axelrod, Julius
American biochemist and pharmacologist who, along with the British biophysicist Sir Bernard Katz and the Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1970. Axelrod's contribution was his identification of an enzyme that degrades chemical neurotransmitters within the nervous system after they are no longer needed to transmit nerve impulses.
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