Changes in mediobasal hypothalamic dopamine and GABA release: A possible mechanism underlying taurine-induced prolactin secretion

Amino Acids

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 5-11

  Arias, P ^a   Jarry, H ^b   Convertini, V ^b   Ginzburg, M ^a   Wuttke, W ^b   Moguilevsky, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Dopamine; GABA; HPLC; Hypothalamus; Prolactin; Taurine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; PROLACTIN; TAURINE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOPAMINE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; OVARIECTOMY; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAURINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031661359     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01345276     Document Type: Article

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