The gonadal steroid hormone, estrogen, has the capacity to function as a neuroprotectant against methamphetamine (MA)-induced neurotoxicity of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system within female, but not male, mice. In an attempt to understand some…
Three experiments are presented in which dopamine (DA) responses from superfused striatal tissue of orchidectomized (ORCH) mice treated or not with testosterone (T) are compared. In experiment 1, potassium-stimulated DA output was significantly…
