Confocal laser scanning and electron-microscopic analyses of the relationship between VIP-like and GnRH-like-immunoreactive neurons in the lateral septal-preoptic area of the pigeon

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-46

  Kiyoshi, Kentaro ^a   Kondoh, Maki ^a   Hirunagi, Kanjun ^a   Korf, Horst W ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH); Immunocytochemical double labeling technique; Lateral septal preoptic area; Pigeon; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PIGEON; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DENDRITES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0031850263     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051096     Document Type: Article

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