Repeated exposure to the abused inhalant toluene alters levels of neurotransmitters and generates peroxynitrite in nigrostriatal and mesolimbic nuclei in rat

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1025, Issue , 2004, Pages 543-551

  Riegel, A C ^a   Ali, S F ^b   Torinese, S ^a   French, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3 nitrosotyrosine, nigrostriatal and mesolimbic nuclei; Dopamine; Inhalant; Neurotoxicity; Neurotransmitter; Oxidative stress; Peroxynitrite; Serotonin; Toluene

Indexed keywords

3 NITROSOTYROSINE; 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXYNITRITE; SEROTONIN; TOLUENE; TYROSINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10444286737     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1316.079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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