The corticosterone synthesis inhibitor metyrapone decreases dopamine D1 receptors in the rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 489-495

  Czyrak, A ^a   Wedzony K ^a   Michalska, B ^a   Fijal K ^a   Dziedzicka Wasylewska, M ^a   Mackowiak M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Caudate putamen; Corticosterone; D1 dopamine receptor; Metyrapone; Nucleus accumbens; Olfactory tubercle

Indexed keywords

8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; METYRAPONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1;

EID: 0343923470     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00649-5     Document Type: Article

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