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Effects of altered thyroid state on the inhibition produced by locus coeruleus in purkinje cells in the rat

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The number of cerebellar Purkinje cells inhibited after locus coeruleus stimulation was found to be greater in hyperthyroid rats than in control healthy animals; these in turn showed a higher percentage of inhibited cells than hypothyroid rats. It is concluded that thyroid hormone is capable of modulating synaptic activity in the LC-PC pathway.

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  1. Escuela de Bioanalisis, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela

    Dolores Fuenmayor & J. A. Gonzalez-Vegas

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Fuenmayor, D., Gonzalez-Vegas, J.A. Effects of altered thyroid state on the inhibition produced by locus coeruleus in purkinje cells in the rat. Experientia 36, 841–842 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01978602

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