Hypophysiotropic somatostatin expression during postnatal development in growth hormone-deficient ames dwarf mice: Peptide immunocytochemistry

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 364-378

  Phelps, Carol J ^a   Saleh, Nabil M A ^b   Romero, Mario I ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Dwarf mice; Growth hormone; Immunohistochemistry; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; BIOTIN; COLCHICINE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DWARFISM; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COLCHICINE; DWARFISM; GROWTH HORMONE; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0029970752     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127140     Document Type: Article

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