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. 1976;38(3-4):271-6.
doi: 10.1007/BF01249444.

Influence of age and time interval between death and autopsy on dopamine and 3-methoxytyramine levels in human basal ganglia

A Carlsson, B Winblad

Influence of age and time interval between death and autopsy on dopamine and 3-methoxytyramine levels in human basal ganglia

A Carlsson et al. J Neural Transm. 1976.

Abstract

The caudate nuclei and putamens of 30 human brains were analyzed for dopamine and its metabolite 3-methoxytyramine, most of which was presumably formed from dopamine postmortally. It was found that dopamine and the sum (dopamine + methoxytyramine) but not methoxytyramine declined with the time interval between death and autopsy as well as with age.

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