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Maize Based Diets and Mouse-Killing Behavior in Rats

Author(s) -

M. Ernandes,

M. La Guardia,

M. Giammanco

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

journal of biological research - bollettino della società italiana di biologia sperimentale

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.218

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2284-0230

pISSN - 1826-8838

DOI - 10.4081/jbr.2003.10555

Subject(s) - tryptophan , serotonergic , serotonin , endogeny , biology , amino acid , medicine , endocrinology , chemistry , biochemistry , receptor

Mouse-killing behavior is correlated with decrease in brain serotonergic tone, caused by injection of p- chlorophenylalanine (which blocks serotonin synthesis), or by tryptophan free diets,which slow down serotonin production because source of tryptophan is done only by endogenous proteins.Another experimental method is maize exclusive diet:maize is, among cereals, that one which has the lowest tryptophan content, and the lowest value of the ratio between tryptophan and its concurrent amino acids for neuron access. In a lot of experiments, maize based diets gave rise to brain serotonin deficiency and to mouse-killing behavior in previous non killer rats.

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