Repeated administration of escalating high doses of dexfenfluramine does not produce morphological evidence for neurotoxicity in the cortex of rats

Neurodegeneration

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-152

  Rose, S ^a   Hunt, S ^b   Collins, P ^a   Hindmarsh, J G ^a   Jenner, P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 HT; Dexfenfluramine; GAP 43; GFAP; Neurotoxicity; 3H citalopram binding

Indexed keywords

DEXFENFLURAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROMODULIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

EID: 0030175520     PISSN: 10558330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/neur.1996.0021     Document Type: Article

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