Increased striatal dopamine release and hyperdopaminergic-like behaviour in mice lacking both alpha-synuclein and gamma-synuclein

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 947-957

  Senior, Steven L ^a,c   Ninkina, Natalia ^b   Deacon, Robert ^c   Bannerman, David ^c   Buchman, Vladimir L ^b   Cragg, Stephanie J ^c   Wade Martins, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; Knockout mice; Parkinson's disease; Synuclein; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CARBON FIBER; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAZE TEST; MEASUREMENT; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; GLUCOSE; HYPERKINESIS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 40549093026     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06055.x     Document Type: Article

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