Castration decreases extracellular, but increases intracellular, dopamine in medial preoptic area of male rats

Brain Research

Volumn 782, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 11-17

  Du, Jianfang ^a   Lorrain, Daniel S ^a   Hull, Elaine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Amygdaia; Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; Castration; Caudate putamen; Dopamine; Male rat; Medial preoptic area; Microdialysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032567687     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01144-X     Document Type: Article

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