1. Effects of immobilization stress on dopamine and its metabolites in different brain areas of the mouse: role of genotype and stress duration
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Simona Cabib, Carmen Schleff, Alberto Oliverio, Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, and Eliane Kempf
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Restraint, Physical ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid ,metabolism, Animals, Brain ,metabolism, Dopamine ,analogs /&/ derivatives/metabolism, Homovanillic Acid ,metabolism, Male, Mice, Mice ,Inbred C57BL, Mice ,Inbred DBA, Organ Specificity, Restraint ,Physical, Species Specificity, Stress ,Psychological ,physiopathology ,Dopamine ,Nucleus accumbens ,Restraint ,Inbred C57BL ,Stress ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Mice ,Species Specificity ,Internal medicine ,analogs /&/ derivatives/metabolism ,medicine ,Physical ,3-Methoxytyramine ,Animals ,Inbred DBA ,Molecular Biology ,Strain (chemistry) ,Chemistry ,General Neuroscience ,Putamen ,Dopaminergic ,Homovanillic acid ,Brain ,Homovanillic Acid ,Metabolism ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Endocrinology ,Biochemistry ,Mice, Inbred DBA ,Organ Specificity ,3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid ,Neurology (clinical) ,metabolism ,Stress, Psychological ,Developmental Biology ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Immobilization stress induced, in mice of both C57BL/6 (C57) and DBA/2 (DBA) strains, an increase in dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC)/dopamine (DA) and homovanillic acid (HVA)/DA ratios and a reduction of 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT)/DA ratio in the caudatus putamen (CP) and nucleus accumbens septi (NAS). These effects were already evident after 30 min stress in the NAS, while in the CP 120 min were needed in order to show the effects of stress. Immobilization did not produce any effects on dopaminergic metabolism in the frontal cortex (FC) of the C57 strain either after 30 or after 120 min stress while in mice of the DBA strain a time-dependent effect of stress on the HVA/DA ratio was evident. When B6D2F1 hybrids were considered, the effects produced by 120 min immobilization in the CP and the NAS paralleled those observed in parental strains, while in the FC 120 min stress indcued the same increase of HVA observed in DBA mice, thus suggesting that the pattern of response in the FC that characterizes the DBA strain may be inherited through a dominant pattern of inheritance.
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- 1988