RAT STRIATAL DOPAMINE AND TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN CONTENT FOLLOWING AN INTRASTRIATAL INJECTION OF MANGANESE CHLORIDE
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1986
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Injection of manganese into the rat corpus striatum causes a rapid fall in the biopterin and dopamine (DA) content ipsilateral to the lesion. Two weeks after the lesion both biopterin and DA are partially recovered. Controls, injected with saline or magnesium, do not show alterations in their DA or cofactor levels. It is proposed that the fall in DA levels results from a rapid displacement of the amine from its storage sites by manganese followed by a decrease in the rate of DA synthesis causes by the drop in cofactor levels.