Expression of somatostatin in neurons of the central posterior/prepacemaker nucleus projecting to the preglomerular nucleus: Immunohistochemical evidence for a non-synaptic function

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-126

  Zupanc, Günther K H ^a   Horschke, Ingrid ^a   Stroh, Thomas ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apt eronotus leptorhynchus; central posterior prepacemaker nucleus; diencephalon; gymnotiformes; preglomerular nucleus; somatostatin; teleostei; thalamus

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FISH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DIENCEPHALON; FISHES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSINE; NEURONS; SOMATOSTATIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030951386     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13481-4     Document Type: Article

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