Gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the gourami midbrain: A double labeling study by immunocytochemistry and tracer injection

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-52

  Yamamoto, Naoyuki ^a   Oka, Yoshitaka ^b   Yoshimoto, Masami ^a   Sawai, Nobuhiko ^a,c   Albert, James S ^a   Ito, Hironobu ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Univ T   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biocytin; Dwarf gourami; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Midbrain; Nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus; Spinal projection; Teleost

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FISHES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LYSINE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS;

EID: 0032472189     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00906-3     Document Type: Article

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