Dietary manipulation of serotonergic and dopaminergic function in C57BL/6J mice with amino acid depletion mixtures

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-162

  Sánchez, Cristina L ^a,b,c,d   Van Swearingen, Amanda E D ^d   Arrant, Andrew E ^d   Kuhn, Cynthia M ^d   Zepf, Florian D ^a,b,c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Jülich Research Center   (Germany)

^c JARA TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined monoamine depletion; Depletion; Dopamine; Mice; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID MIXTURE; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; SEROTONIN; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MONOAMINE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOPAMINE; FOOD, FORMULATED; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENYLALANINE; SEROTONIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

EID: 84891825288     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-013-1083-0     Document Type: Article

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