Axon terminals containing PACAP- and VIP-immunoreactivity form synapses with CRF-immunoreactive neurons in the dorsolateral division of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 767, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-119

  Kozicz, Tamás ^a   Vigh, Sándor ^a   Arimura, Akira ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of stria terminalis; Corticotropin releasing factor immunoreactive neuron; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide immunoreactive axon terminal; Rat; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide immunoreactive axon terminal

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; SYNAPSES; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0030882630     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00737-3     Document Type: Article

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