Heterogeneity in the neuropeptide Y-containing neurons of the rat arcuate nucleus: GABAergic and non-GABAergic subpopulations

Brain Research

Volumn 756, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 283-286

  Horvath, Tamas L ^a   Bechmann, Ingo ^a,b   Naftolin, Frederick ^a   Kalra, Satya P ^c   Leranth, Csaba ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid (GABA); Double label immunocytochemistry; Ingestive behavior; Mediobasal hypothalamus; Neuropeptide Y; Rat; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; COLCHICINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHODAMINES;

EID: 0030990363     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00184-4     Document Type: Article

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