A single dose model of methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity in rats: Effects on neostriatal monoamines and glial fibrillary acidic protein

Brain Research

Volumn 806, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Fukumura, Masao ^a   Cappon, Gregg D ^a   Pu, Cunfeng ^a   Broening, Harry W ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Hyperthermia; Methamphetamine; Neurotoxicity; Rat; Serotonin; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Western blot

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MONOAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; METHAMPHETAMINE; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOSTRIATUM; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; FEVER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032556057     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00656-8     Document Type: Article

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