title: Topographic atlas of monoamine oxidase-containing neurons in the rat brain studied by an improved histochemical method.
abstract: The distribution of monoamine oxidase-containing neuronal somata was studied in the rat brain by using an improved enzyme histochemical technique of the coupled peroxidatic oxidation method applied to fixed free-floating sections. The majority of monoamine oxidase-containing neuronal somata appeared to correspond with well-known cell groups of monoamine-containing neurons with a few exceptions. The enzyme appeared to coexist also in histamine-containing neurons in the posterior hypothalamus. Furthermore, monoamine oxidase activity was localized in apparently non-monoaminergic cells in the mesencephalon, hypothalamus, thalamus and telencephalon.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*; D006651:Histocytochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase / Q000032:analysis*; D009474:Neurons / Q000145:classification / Q000201:enzymology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D008995:Monoamine Oxidase