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Biochemical and pharmacological evidence in animals indicates that oestrogens are capable of substantially modulating postsynaptic dopamine (DA) receptor sensitivity (1,2). Recent physiological data, indicating that oestrogens significantly attenuate the ability of apomorphine to inhibit the firing activity of type B dopamine neurons in the rat substantia nigra, suggest that these hormones may also induce a subsensitivity of DA autoreceptors (3).
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Piccardi, M.P., Del Zompo, M., Meloni, M., Corsini, G.U. (1985). Oestrogen Modulation of Dopamine Receptors: Autoreceptor Implication for Antidepressant Activity. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Biological Psychiatry, Higher Nervous Activity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8329-1_34
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