Lack of glucocorticoids attenuates the self-stimulation-induced increase in the in vivo synthesis rate of dopamine but not serotonin in the rat nucleus accumbens

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1495-1500

  Nakahara, Daiichiro ^a   Nakamura, Masato ^a   Oki, Yutaka ^a   Ishida, Yasushi ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

3,4 Dihydroxyphenylalanine; 5 Hydroxytryptophan; Adrenalectomy; Tryptophan hydroxylation; Tyrosine hydroxylation

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; CORTICOSTERONE; DECARBOXYLASE INHIBITOR; DOPA; DOPAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; SEROTONIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SEROTONIN METABOLISM;

5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTISONE; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDRAZINES; HYDROXYLATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SELF STIMULATION; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

EID: 0034050383     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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