Barbiturates and meprobamate: decreases in cathecholamine turnover of central dopamine and noradrenaline neuronal systems and the influence of immobilization stress.

Animals Barbiturates/pharmacology Brain/enzymology,metabolism Cerebellar Cortex/drug effects,metabolism Cerebral Cortex/drug effects,metabolism Corpus Striatum/drug effects,metabolism Dopamine/metabolism Fluorescence Hypothalamus/drug effects,metabolism Immobilization Limbic System/drug effects,metabolism Male Meprobamate/pharmacology Methyltyrosines/pharmacology Monoamine Oxidase/metabolism Norepinephrine/metabolism Rats Stress, Physiological/metabolism Substantia Nigra/drug effects,metabolism Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase/antagonists & inhibitors

Barbiturates Methyltyrosines Meprobamate Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase Monoamine Oxidase Dopamine Norepinephrine