Characterization of pars intermedia connections in amphibians by biocytin tract tracing and immunofluorescence aided by confocal microscopy

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 297-304

  Jansen, Koen ^a,b   Fabro, Claudia ^a   Artero, Cristina ^a   Feuilloley, Marc ^c   Vaudry, Hubert ^c   Fasolo, Aldo ^a   Franzoni, Maria F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Biocytin; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Crested newt, Triturus carnifex (Urodela); Green frog, Rana esculentn (Anura); Immunofluorescence; Pars intermedia; Suprachiasmatic hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; TRACER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FROG; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; COLORING AGENTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LOCUS COERULEUS; LYSINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PREOPTIC AREA; RANA ESCULENTA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRITURUS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; CAUDATA; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA ESCULENTA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS; TRITURUS CARNIFEX;

EID: 0031042669     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050754     Document Type: Article

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