Figure 2.
βPEA increases the amount of extracellular DA in C. elegans differentiated neuronal cultures. 100 μM βPEA applied for 1 minute in C. elegans cells caused a significant increase of extracellular [3H]DA with respect to control-treated cells (*p = 0.0001, one-way ANOVA). RTI-55 partly inhibited the βPEA-induced effect (*p=0.0001 vs. controls and ○p = 0.001 vs. βPEA-treated samples, one-way ANOVA), but caused no effect when applied alone.