Semi-quantitative ultrastructural analysis of the localization and neuropeptide content of gonadotropin releasing hormone nerve terminals in the median eminence throughout the estrous cycle of the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 177-191

  Prevot, V ^a   Dutoit, S ^a   Croix, D ^a   Tramu, G ^b   Beauvillain, J C ^a  

^a U 124 Inst Natl S la Rech Med   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; LHRH; Median eminence; Plasticity; Proestrus; Tanycytes

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031952465     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00537-X     Document Type: Article

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