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Science 1 February 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4430, pp. 537 - 540
DOI: 10.1126/science.6101509
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Science, Vol 207, Issue 4430, 537-540
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Compensatory increase in tyrosine hydroxylase activity in rat brain after intraventricular injections of 6-hydroxydopamine

AL Acheson, MJ Zigmond, and EM Stricker

The neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine produced a permanent loss of endogenous norepinephrine and of 3H-labeled norepinephrine uptake sites in the hippocampus within 5 days. These losses were initially accompanied by parallel decreases in tyrosine hydroxylase activity and synaptosomal norepinephrine synthesis. Within 21 days, however, hippocampal tyrosine hydroxylase activity and norepinephrine synthesis rate increased three- to fivefold. These data suggest a novel form of plasticity in brain-damaged animals characterized by an increase in the capacity for transmitter biosynthesis in residual neurons.


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