Extracellular concentration of monoamines and their metabolites in the mediobasal hypothalamus-median eminence of ewes during β-endorphin treatment

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-53

  Tomaszewska, Dorota ^a   Mateusiak, Krystyna ^a   Przekop, Franciszek ^a  

^a KIELANOWSKI INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND NUTRITION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4 HYDROXY 3 METHOXYPHENYLETHYLENE GLYCOL; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; BETA ENDORPHIN; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; ESTRUS; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MONOAMINE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SHEEP;

EID: 0031925816     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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