Behavioral and neurochemical changes in folate-deficient mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 935-941

  Gospe Jr , Sidney M ^a,b   Gietzen, Dorothy W ^a   Summers, Philip J ^a   Lunetta, Jennine M ^a   Miller, Joshua W ^c   Selhub, Jacob ^c   Ellis, William G ^a   Clifford, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Folate deficiency; Food spilling behavior; Mice; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028846548     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)00156-D     Document Type: Article

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