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Nicotinamide reduces dopamine in postnatal hypothalamus and causes dopamine-deficient phenotype.
Neuroscience letters - 18 Sept 2009
Lee Jae-Yong, Ahn Kyungsook, Jang Bong Geom, Park Seong-Hoon, Kang Hong-Jun, Heo Jee-In, Ko Yoon-Jung, Won Moo-Ho, Tae-Cheon Kang, Jo Sangmee Ahn, Kim Min-Ju
Abstract excerpt
Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter in the human central nervous system and also plays a key role in the development of postnatal brains. We previously reported that nicotinamide, a SIRT1 inhibitor, regulates tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) expression in vitro. To investigate the effect of nicotinamide-mediated TH regulation in vivo, nicotinamide was chronically injected into neonatal mice. Interestingly,...
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