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Mechanism of psychotropic effect of toluene
Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultatis Medicae
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
An acute 30 min exposure to toluene vapours (0.32 mmol/l of the air) provoked in the rat brain a decrease of total nonesterified fatty acids (arachidonic acid -21.7%, oleic acid -18.3%, stearic acid -7.9% in the brain cortex and arachidonic acid -6.8% in the hypothalamus). The results are in harmony with the hypothesis of the NEFA decreasing effect of the inhibitory substances in the brain.