Dietary fish oil affects monoaminergic neurotransmission and behavior in rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2512-2519

  Chalon, Sylvie ^a   Delion Vancassel, Sylvie ^a   Belzung, Catherine ^b   Guilloteau, Denis ^b   Leguisquet, Anne Marie ^b   Besnard, Jean Claude ^a   Durand, Georges ^c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Ethologie et de Pharmacologie du Comportement   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

(n 3) polyunsaturated fatty acid; (n 6) polyunsaturated fatty acid; Dopamine; Frontal cortex; Rats; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME B; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; FISH OIL; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; GYMNOMYZA SAMOENSIS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 0032425219     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/128.12.2512     Document Type: Article

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