Striatal postsynaptic ultrastructural alterations following methylenedioxymethamphetamine administration

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 965, Issue , 2002, Pages 381-398

  Fornai, F ^a,b   Gesi, M ^a   Lenzi, P ^a   Ferrucci, M ^a   Pellegrini, A ^a   Ruggieri, S ^b   Casini, A ^a   Paparelli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Ecstasy; MDMA; Ubiquitin; Whorls

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036293062     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04180.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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