Dopamine release and uptake are greater in female than male rat striatum as measured by fast cyclic voltammetry

Neuroscience

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1061-1070

  Walker, Q D ^a   Rooney, M B ^b   Wightman, R M ^b   Kuhn, C M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine release; Dopamine uptake; Estrous cycle; Gender; Sex differences; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0033430968     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00500-X     Document Type: Article

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