Dopamine transporter knock-out mice are hypersensitive to 3-nitropropionic acid-induced striatal damage

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2053-2056

  Fernagut, Pierre O ^a   Diguet, Elsa ^a   Jaber, Mohamed ^b   Bioulac, Bernard ^a   Tison, François ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Dopamine transporter; Excitotoxicity; Motor behaviour; Nigrostriatal pathway

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENOTYPE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CELL DEATH; CONVULSANTS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG TOLERANCE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTOXINS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PROPIONIC ACIDS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0036460460     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02047.x     Document Type: Article

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