1998
Upregulation of striatal D2 receptors in the MPTP-treated vervet monkey is reversed by grafts of fetal ventral mesencephalon: an autoradiographic study
Elsworth J, Brittan M, Taylor J, Sladek J, Redmond D, Innis R, Zea-Ponce Y, Roth R. Upregulation of striatal D2 receptors in the MPTP-treated vervet monkey is reversed by grafts of fetal ventral mesencephalon: an autoradiographic study. Brain Research 1998, 795: 55-62. PMID: 9622593, DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)00252-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH Keywords1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridineAnimalsAutoradiographyBenzofuransBrain Tissue TransplantationChlorocebus aethiopsCorpus StriatumDisease Models, AnimalDopamine AgentsFetal Tissue TransplantationImage Processing, Computer-AssistedIodine RadioisotopesMesencephalonParkinson Disease, SecondaryRadioligand AssayReceptors, Dopamine D2Up-RegulationConceptsFetal ventral mesencephalonD2 receptor bindingVentral mesencephalonDorsal striatumAutoradiographic studyDopamine uptake site densityPostsynaptic dopamine receptor activationVentral striatumDopamine concentrationsStriatal D2 receptor bindingReceptor bindingD2 receptor upregulationPostsynaptic dopamine transmissionTetrahydropyridine-treated monkeysStriatal D2 receptorsDopamine receptor activationPrevious autoradiographic studiesAfrican green monkeysDonor neuronsIntrastriatal graftingParkinsonian primatesNeural transplantationReceptor upregulationStriatal circuitryMotor function
1996
Early gestational mesencephalon grafts, but not later gestational mesencephalon, cerebellum or sham grafts, increase dopamine in caudate nucleus of MPTP-treated monkeys
Elsworth J, Sladek J, Taylor J, Collier T, Redmond D, Roth R. Early gestational mesencephalon grafts, but not later gestational mesencephalon, cerebellum or sham grafts, increase dopamine in caudate nucleus of MPTP-treated monkeys. Neuroscience 1996, 72: 477-484. PMID: 8737417, DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00564-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFetal ventral mesencephalonVentral mesencephalonCaudate nucleusGraft siteDopamine neuronsDopamine concentrationsBehavioral recoveryTyrosine hydroxylase-positive neuronsHomovanillic acid/dopamine ratioFetal dopamine neuronsGrafted dopamine neuronsIntrastriatal transplantsParkinsonian primatesGrafted neuronsIntrastriatal transplantationGestational ageTransplant proceduresDopamine ratioDopamine productionSignificant elevationNucleus accumbensDopamine systemSham graftsGraftBrain regions