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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res Bull. 2007 May 11;73(4-6):301–309. doi: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.04.004

TABLE 1.

Control Values

Age Region 5HT (ng/g tissue) 5HT (ng/region) 5HT turnover ratio
PN21 cerebral cortex 157 ± 4 128 ± 4 1.27 ± 0.09
hippocampus 143 ± 5 13.8 ± 0.6 1.70 ± 0.09
midbrain 464 ± 34 106 ± 8 1.40 ± 0.09
brainstem 394 ± 14 47 ± 2 1.15 ± 0.06
PN30 cerebral cortex 181 ± 6 146 ± 4 0.81 ± 0.08
striatum 258 ± 6 24.0 ± 1.0 1.11 ± 0.04
hippocampus 164 ± 9 16.7 ± 1.0 1.30 ± 0.14
midbrain 499 ± 27 126 ± 6 0.76 ± 0.05
brainstem 394 ± 14 49 ± 2 0.74 ± 0.03
PN45 cerebral cortex 203 ± 9 173 ± 9 0.65 ± 0.05

Because of the absence of sex differences for these measures, values are shown combined for males and females. For the measurements on PN21, the region designated as “cerebral cortex” includes the striatum.