Ultrastructural localization of galanin and galanin receptors in the guinea pig median eminence

Brain Research

Volumn 753, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-46

  Dutriez, Isabelle ^a,c   Lagny Pourmir, Isabelle ^b   Epelbaum, Jacques ^b   Beauvillain, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CENTRE PAUL BROCA   (France)

^c Cite Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

autoradiography; electron microscopy; galanin; guinea pig; immunocytochemistry; median eminence; nerve ending; tanycyte

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; GALANIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; GALANIN; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RECEPTORS, GALANIN; RECEPTORS, GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE;

EID: 0030979443     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01487-4     Document Type: Article

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