Vasoactive intestinal peptide efferent projections of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in anterior hypothalamic transplants: Correlation with functional restoration of circadian behavior

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-11

  Sollars, Patricia J ^a   Pickard, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HAMSTERS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0028825278     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1995.1078     Document Type: Article

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