Local administration of l-DOPA in the chicken ventromedial hypothalamus increases dopamine release in a dose-dependent manner

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 529, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-154

  Alam, Mohammad Rashedul ^a,b   Yoshizawa, Fumiaki ^b   Sugahara, Kunio ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chickens; Dopamine; L DOPA; Microdialysis; Tetrodotoxin; Ventromedial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; MONOAMINE; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM ION; RINGER SOLUTION; SEROTONIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CANNULA; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CHICKENS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPOTHALAMUS; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SEROTONIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84867997340     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.08.054     Document Type: Article

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