Sexual dimorphism of arg-vasotocin gene expressing neurons in the telencephalon and dorsal diencephalon of the domestic fowl. An immunocytochemical and in situ hybridization study

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-77

  Jurkevich, A ^a,b   Barth, S W ^b   Grossmann, R ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Research Unit of Physiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Dehydration; Domestic fowl; Immunocytochemistry; In situ hybridization; Sex dimorphism; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FOWL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OSMOTIC STRESS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0031015024     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050732     Document Type: Article

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