Neurochemical and histochemical evidence for an abnormal catecholamine metabolism in the cerebral cortex of the Long-Evans Cinnamon rat before excessive copper accumulation in the brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-198

  Saito, Takeshi ^a   Nagao, Takashi ^b   Okabe, Masashi ^c   Saito, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Catecholamine metabolism; Copper metabolism; Dopamine hydroxylase; Long Evans Cinnamon rat; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WILSON DISEASE;

EID: 0030568989     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13041-X     Document Type: Article

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