Chronic treatment with melatonin attenuates serotonergic degeneration in the striatum and olfactory tubercle of zitter mutant rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 448, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-216

  Ueda, Shiuchi ^a   Sakakibara, Shin ichi ^a   Kadowaki, Taro ^a   Naitoh, Takuya ^b   Hirata, Koichi ^a   Yoshimoto, Kanji ^c  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miz Co Ltd Fujisawa ^*  (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attractin; Melatonin; Neuroprotection; Oxidative stress; Serotonin; Zitter rat

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ATTRACTIN; MELATONIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SEROTONIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PROTECTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; INNERVATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZITTER RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELATONIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEROTONIN;

EID: 56249149213     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.10.059     Document Type: Article

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