Neuronal expression of Fos-like protein along the afferent pathway of the milk-ejection reflex in the sheep

Brain Research

Volumn 741, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 309-313

  Tsingotjidou, Anastasia ^a   Papadopoulos, Georgios C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

c Fos; dorsal root ganglia; hypothalamus; milk ejection reflex; sheep; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MILK EJECTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MILK EJECTION; NEURONS; NIPPLES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SHEEP;

EID: 0030602029     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00943-2     Document Type: Article

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