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5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP)-immunoreactive neurons in the rat brain tissue
M Touret1, K Kitahama, M Geffard
1Département de Médecine Expérimentale, Faculté de Médecine, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
Neuroscience Letters
|October 5, 1987
Abstract:
We demonstrated the presence of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), the immediate precursor of serotonin (5-HT), in the rat brain tissue using a glutaraldehyde-coupled immunohistochemical technique. The immunoreactivity of 5-HTP was intensified in the colchicine-pretreated rat. The distribution of labelled cells was the same as for 5-HT-immunoreactive cells, but they were fewer in number.