Intrastriatal taurine increases striatal extracellular dopamine in a tetrodotoxin-sensitive manner in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 175-178

  Ruotsalainen, Minna ^a   Ahtee, Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

In vivo microdialysis; Intrastriatal taurine; Rat; Striatal dopamine release and metabolism; Tetrodotoxin sensitivity

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; TAURINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030593508     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12821-4     Document Type: Article

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