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O O Konovko1, I V Dyuizen, P A Motavkin
1Department of Histology, Vladivostok State Medical University, Vladivostok.
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|November 25, 2003
Abstract:
Serotonin-, dopamine-, and noradrenergic nuclei in human brainstem were examined histochemically for alcohol dehydrogenase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, and NADPH diaphorase. The findings indicate that monoaminergic centers are characterized by different repertoire of NO-ergic and ethanol-oxidizing enzymes, whose distribution correlates with the transmitter specialization of neurons.
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