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Behavioural deficits and serotonin depletion in adult rats after transient infant nasal viral infection.
Neuroscience - 1 Jan 1990
Mohammed A K, Magnusson O, Maehlen J, Fonnum F, Norrby E, Schultzberg M, Kristensson K
Abstract excerpt
Dysfunction of subcortical serotoninergic neurons has been implicated in some behaviour disturbances. The serotoninergic neurons in the dorsal and median raphe project widely in the brain. They innervate the olfactory bulbs and can be targets for exogenous agents attacking the olfactory epithelium and bulbs. We report here an injury to the serotoninergic neurons after intranasal infection in 12-day-old rats with...
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