Circadian levels of serotonin in plasma and brain after oral administration of tryptophan in rats

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-59

  Mateos, Soledad Sánchez ^a   Sánchez, Cristina L ^a   Paredes, Sergio D ^a   Barriga, Carmen ^a   Rodríguez, Ana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENING DOSAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MALE; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 58149098108     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2008.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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