title: [Brain tyrosine hydroxylase activity in behavior-selected silver foxes].
abstract: In two groups of silver foxes--i.e. selected by the domestic type of behaviour and aggressive ones--studies have been made on the activity of the key enzyme in biosynthesis of catecholamines--i.e. tyrosine hydroxylase from the brain. Domesticated animals exhibited higher enzymic activity in the locus coeruleus, hypothalamus and cortex. Animals from both groups did not differ with respect to the level of tyrosine hydroxylase activity in the corpus striatum. The enzymic reactions of homogenates from locus coeruleus region of the brain in both groups of animals, as well as homogenates from the corpus striatum of the brain of aggressive animals exhibited low and approximately equal values of Michaelis constant for tyrosine. The value of KM was 3 times higher in the hypothalamus in both groups of foxes and in the corpus striatum of tame animals. Presumably, selection of silver foxes for the domestic type of behaviour resulted in the increase of biosynthesis of catecholamines in the brain due to the increase in the number of enzyme molecules. The increase in the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase in noradrenaline system of the brain may be associated with changes in the behavioural pattern of animals resulting from selection.
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Dygalo
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Bykova
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Naumenko
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000032:analysis; D005589:Foxes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
vernacular_title: Aktivnost' tirozingidroksilazy golovnogo mozga u selektiruemykh po povedeniiu serebristo-chernykh listits.