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[Serotonin and dopamine brain metabolism in mice with different predisposition to catalepsy].
Zhurnal vysshei nervnoi deiatelnosti imeni I P Pavlova - 1 Jan 2000
Sinyakova N A, Kulikova E A, Kulikov A V
Abstract excerpt
Catalepsy usually is caused by imbalance of dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) systems of brain. The aim of our work was to verify if this imbalance plays an important role in the mechanism of hereditary catalepsy in mice. Maintenance of DA, 5-HT and their main metabolites--5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid, homovanilic acid was determined in cortex, hypothalamus, hippocampus, striatum,...
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