Age-related changes in neurotensin content and receptors in various rat brain areas
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Experimental Aging Research
- Vol. 12 (4) , 197-201
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610738608258568
Abstract
Neurotensin immunoreactivity (NT-IR) is significantly reduced in striatum, nucleus accumbens and hippocampus but not in frontal cortex, hypothalamus and septum of 24-month-old male Sprague Dawley rats. Neurotensin binding in cortex, striatum, hypothalamus and hippocampus shows a rather uniform decline with age. The changes in NT-IR content in striatum and nucleus accumbens are of particular interest in view of the existence of a functional relationship between dopamine and neurotensin.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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