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Table 1 Summary of copper, genotype and sex effects on dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine

From: Persisting neurobehavioral effects of developmental copper exposure in wildtype and metallothionein 1 and 2 knockout mice

 

Copper

MTKO

Sex

Frontal Cortex

 DA Level

 

−11 % MTKO < WT

+10 % Males > Females

 DA Turnover

 

+17 % MTKO > WT

−13 % Males < Females

 5HT Level

 

+10 % MTKO > WT

 

 5HT Turnover

 

−17 % MTKO < WT

 

 NE Level

   

Posterior Cortex

 DA Level

   

 5HT Level

 

+34 % MTKO > WT

 

 5HT Turnover

  

−6 % Males < Females

 NE Level

   

Hippocampus

 DA Level

+56 % Cu > Con Females

+41 % MTKO > WT Females

 

 DA Turnover

−31 % Cu < Con Females

  

 5HT Level

 

+8 % MTKO > WT

−7 % Males < Females

 5HT Turnover

−13 % Cu < Con in WT

  

 NE Level

 

+11 % MTKO > WT

+5 % Males > Females

Striatum

 DA Level

   

 DA Turnover

−14 % Cu < Con

  

 5HT Level

 

+13 % MTKO > WT

 

 5HT Turnover

   

 NE Level

   

Midbrain

 DA Level

   

 DA Turnover

 

+10%MTKO > WT

 

 5HT Level

 

+17 % MTKO > WT

 

 5HT Turnover

−7 % Cu < Con WT Males

  

+10 % Cu > Con MTKO Females

 NE Level

   

Brainstem

 DA Level

 

+17 % MTKO > WT

 

 DA Turnover

 

+13 % MTKO > WT

 

 5HT Level

 

+35 % MTKO > WT Males

 

 5HT Turnover

−12 % Cu < Con female WT

  

+17 % Cu > Con Female MTKO

 NE Level

 

+8 % MTKO > WT