The effect of unilateral neurotoxic lesions to serotonin fibres in the medial forebrain bundle on the metabolism of [3H]DOPA in the telencephalon of the living rat

Brain Research

Volumn 747, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-69

  Cumming, Paul ^a   Ljubic Thibal, Vesna ^a   Laliberté, Christine ^a   Diksic, Mirko ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

5,7 dihydroxytryptamine; DOPA; dopamine; fasciculus retroflexus; medial forebrain bundle; metabolism; neurotoxin; radiotracer; serotonin

Indexed keywords

3BETA (4 IODOPHENYL) 2BETA TROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; 5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TELENCEPHALON;

5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DESIPRAMINE; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NERVE FIBERS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0031042123     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01227-9     Document Type: Article

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