No Evidence for Lateral Asymmetry of Neurotransmitters in Post‐Mortem Human Brain
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 35 (3), 743-745
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1980.tb03716.x
Abstract
Post-mortem studies of human brain tissue provide evidence of biochemical abnormalities in various neurological and psychiatric disorders. Post-mortem human brain was studied to establish whether there is evidence for lateral asymmetry of neurotransmitters. Choline acetyltransferase, glutamic acid decarboxylase, .alpha.-aminobutyric acid, dopamine and noradrenaline [norepinephrine] were measured in 9 comparable areas from the left and right hemispheres of normal post-mortem human brain. Only nigral GABA showed a left-right difference at a 5% significance level. Chemical laterality is unlikely to be an important source of error in human post-morten studies.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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