Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-nerve terminals densely innervate corticotropin-releasing hormone-neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 145-148

  Légrádi, Gábor ^a   Hannibal, Jens ^c   Lechan, Ronald M ^a,b  

^a Division of Endocrinology   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone neurons; Electron microscopy; Hypothalamus; Immunohistochemistry; Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide; Stress; Synapses

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE;

EID: 0032502579     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00255-9     Document Type: Article

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