Noradrenaline loss selectively exacerbates nigrostriatal toxicity in different species of rodents

Functional Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 193-198

  Fornai, Francesco ^a   Bassi, Lucia ^a   Bonaccorsi, Irene ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^a   Corsini, Giovanni U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dopamine; DSP 4; Locus coeruleus; Methamphetamine; Noradrenaline

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO N (2 CHLOROETHYL) N ETHYLBENZYLAMINE; BENZYLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEUROTOXIN; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DEATH; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; LOCUS CERULEUS; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; BENZYLAMINES; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL DEATH; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LOCUS COERULEUS; METHAMPHETAMINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTOXINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0031134155     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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