MARMARA MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.34, sa.3, ss.234-240, 2021 (ESCI)
Objective: Some of the neurological diseases cause morphologic changes in the striatal neurons. Medial forebrain bundle (MFB) lesion is a commonly used method to produce a Parkinsonian model rat. Melatonin is a hormone which exerts a neuroprotective effect on the neurons. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of melatonin on the dendritic morphology of striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) in rats with MFB lesion.