Urocortin-like immunoreactivity in the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area and Edinger-Westphal nucleus of rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 21-24

  Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Maeda, Toshihiro ^a   Fujimura, Masaki ^a   Fujimiya, Mineko ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gold labeled WGAapoHRP (WGAa poHRP Au); Immunohistochemistry; Rat; Substantia nigra; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Urocortin; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GOLD; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UROCORTIN; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GOLD COLLOID; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0031886387     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00071-8     Document Type: Article

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