Testosterone induces molecular changes in dopamine signaling pathway molecules in the adolescent male rat nigrostriatal pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Purves Tyson, Tertia D ^a,b,d   Owens, Samantha J ^a,b,d   Double, Kay L ^c   Desai, Reena ^e   Handelsman, David J ^e   Weickert, Cynthia Shannon ^a,b,f  

^a SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 5 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MALE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORCHIECTOMY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84897490582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091151     Document Type: Article

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