[Effects of genotype-glucocorticoid interaction on the tyrosine hydroxylase activity in the brain of rat fetuses].

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[Effects of genotype-glucocorticoid interaction on the tyrosine hydroxylase activity in the brain of rat fetuses].

Genetika - 1 Sept 1993

Dygalo N N, Kalinina T S

Abstract excerpt

The activity of the rate-limiting enzyme of catecholamine synthesis--the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) increased in the brain of 20-day-old fetuses of the Wistar strain and aggressive gray rats, 6 hours after corticosterone injection to their mothers. However, this treatment had no effect on the TH a...

Topics

Animals
Body Weight
Brain
Corticosterone
Female
Genotype
Maternal-Fetal Exchange
Pregnancy
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase

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