Effects of Long-Term Corn Consumption on Brain Serotonin and the Response to Electric Shock
- 14 November 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 190 (4215) , 692-694
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.810890
Abstract
Rats fed tryptophan-poor corn diets have reduced levels of brain serotonin and show increased responsiveness to electric shock. This diet-induced hyperalgesia can be reversed by feeding the animals diets with adequate amounts of tryptophan, or by systemic injections of the amino acid.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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