Immunocytochemical evidence for the presence of vasopressin in intermediate sized neurosecretory granules of solitary neurohypophyseal terminals in the homozygous Brattleboro rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 225-231

  Sonnemans, M A F ^a   Evans, D A P ^a,b   Burbach, J P H ^b   Van Leeuwen, F W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diabetes inspipidus; hypothalamus; neurophysin; paraventricular nucleus; supraoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTANT; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030009707     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00550-1     Document Type: Article

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