Dopamine-degrading activity of monoamine oxidase is not detected by histochemistry in neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta of the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 812, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 275-278

  Arai, Ryohachi ^a   Horiike, Kihachiro ^b   Hasegawa, Yoshimi ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Phenylethylamine; Dopamine; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Locus ceruleus; Monoamine oxidase; Serotonin; Substantia nigra; Tyramine

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENETHYLAMINE; SEROTONIN; TYRAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0032561728     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00983-4     Document Type: Article

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