Dopamine-degrading activity of monoamine oxidase in locus coeruleus and dorsal raphe nucleus neurons. A histochemical study in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-44

  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

Dopamine; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Enzyme histochemistry; Locus coeruleus; Monoamine oxidase; Noradrenergic neurons; Parkinson's disease; Serotonergic neurons

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032568898     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00429-7     Document Type: Article

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