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Dopamine-β-hydroxylase activity in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

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Dopamine-β-hydroxylase (DBH) activity was higher in the serum, the mesenteric artery and the cerebral cortex of 4-week-old stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP), and lower in the nucleus tractus solitarii than it was in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR).

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  1. Laboratory of Cell Physiology, Department of Life Chemistry, Graduate School at nagatsuta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 227, Yokohama, (Japan)

    T. Nagatsu, T. Kato, Y. Hashimoto, Y. Numata, Y. Yamori(Sudo) & K. Okamoto

  2. Department of Biochemistry, School of Dentistry, Aichi-Gakuin University, 464, Nagoya, (Japan)

    T. Nagatsu, T. Kato, Y. Hashimoto, Y. Numata, Y. Yamori(Sudo) & K. Okamoto

  3. Department of Pathology, National Shimane Medical School, 693, Izumo, (Japan)

    T. Nagatsu, T. Kato, Y. Hashimoto, Y. Numata, Y. Yamori(Sudo) & K. Okamoto

  4. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kinki University, 589, Osaka, (Japan)

    T. Nagatsu, T. Kato, Y. Hashimoto, Y. Numata, Y. Yamori(Sudo) & K. Okamoto

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The authors wish to thank Prof. Masao Sano (Nagoya University) for his aid in dissecting the nucleus tractus solitarii and the locus coeruleus.

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Nagatsu, T., Kato, T., Hashimoto, Y. et al. Dopamine-β-hydroxylase activity in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. Experientia 34, 305–306 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01923000

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